Catherine BERUBE

Born

5 August 1792 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Died

11 May 1880 , Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada

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Pierre BERUBE Catherine HUDON dite BEAULIEU

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Born: 5 August 1792 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre BERUBE

Mother: Catherine HUDON dite BEAULIEU

Paternal grandparents: Joseph BERUBE , Angélique THIBAULT

Maternal grandparents: Louis HUDON dit BEAULIEU , Catherine AUTIN

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Catherine married Elie LAVOIE 3 August 1812 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elie LAVOIE was born 14 July 1790 in La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere). Elie died 15 November 1868 in Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges). Elie was the child of Ignace LAVOIE and Angélique PLOURDE.

Catherine BERUBE died 11 May 1880 in Trois-Pistoles, 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.

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Catherine BERUBE married

Elie LAVOIE
Marriage date: 3 August 1812
Marriage place: Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada
Elie LAVOIE was the child of Ignace LAVOIE and Angélique PLOURDE

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Children of Elie LAVOIE and Catherine BERUBE

Bernard LAVOIE

Born: abt. 1817, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 26 December 1856, Trois-Pistoles, Canada East

Married: Zoe MICHAUD 22 February 1841 Place: Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1792
5 August 1792
Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

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

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

1812 Marriage / Partner
Catherine BERUBE and Elie LAVOIE 3 August 1812, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

She was 20 years old.

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

1841 Marriage of Child
Bernard LAVOIE married 22 February 1841, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada to Zoe MICHAUD

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

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

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.

1856 Death of Child
Bernard LAVOIE died 26 December 1856, Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges)

Catherine was 64 years old.

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.