Marie DUFOUR

Born

1 March 1859 , Montréal, Canada East

Died

23 August 1896 , Louiseville, Québec, Canada

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Abel-Jean DUFOUR Louise JEAN

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Born: 1 March 1859 in Montréal, Canada East

Father: Abel-Jean DUFOUR

Mother: Louise JEAN

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Marie married Napoleon CROTEAU 4 December 1879 in St-Roch, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Napoleon CROTEAU was born 2 September 1860 in St-Roch, Quebec East, Quebec, Canada. Napoleon died 9 January 1904 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Napoleon was the child of Augustin CROTEAU and Domitille-Marie-Odille PARADIS.

Marie DUFOUR died 23 August 1896 in Louiseville, 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
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1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
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Marie DUFOUR married

Napoleon CROTEAU
Marriage date: 4 December 1879
Marriage place: St-Roch, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada
Napoleon CROTEAU was the child of Augustin CROTEAU and Domitille-Marie-Odille PARADIS

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Marie-Louise CROTEAU

Born: January 1881, Louiseville, Québec, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Domina ST-ONGE 30 August 1897 Place: Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup)

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Birth — 1859
1 March 1859
Montréal, Canada East

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1879 Marriage / Partner
Marie DUFOUR and Napoleon CROTEAU 4 December 1879, St-Roch, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada

She was 20 years old.

1881 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise CROTEAU was born January 1881, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup)

Marie was 21 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada