Joseph FREDETTE (FRADET)

Born

abt. 1788 , Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

abt. 1874 , Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Québec, Canada

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Born: abt. 1788 in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Province of Québec, Canada

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Joseph married Marie-Madeleine GUILLET dite CINQ MARS . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Madeleine GUILLET dite CINQ MARS was born abt. 1789 in Beloeil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil). Marie-Madeleine died abt. 1850 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec).

Joseph FREDETTE (FRADET) died abt. 1874 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Marie-Madeleine GUILLET dite CINQ MARS
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Henri FREDETTE

Born: abt. 1813, La Présentation, Lower Canada
Died: abt. 1895, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Mathilda GODU (GODDU) 15 October 1844 Place: Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1844 Marriage of Child
Henri FREDETTE married 15 October 1844, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada to Mathilda GODU (GODDU)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.