Joseph-Nicolas GRENIER

Born

5 December 1851 , Paspébiac, Canada East

Died

28 November 1898 , St-Godefroi, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada

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Born: 5 December 1851 in Paspébiac, Canada East

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Joseph-Nicolas married Marguerite ROUSSY 14 September 1875 in Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite ROUSSY was born 24 April 1854 in Paspébiac, Canada East . Marguerite died 29 March 1888 in Paspébiac, Québec, Canada .

Joseph-Nicolas GRENIER died 28 November 1898 in St-Godefroi, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada.

son of James Grenier and Marguerite Huard

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Joseph-Nicolas GRENIER married

Marguerite ROUSSY
Marriage date: 14 September 1875
Marriage place: Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Joseph-Nicolas GRENIER and Marguerite ROUSSY

Joseph-James-Stanley-Napoleon GRENIER

Born: 12 October 1879, Paspébiac, Québec, Canada
Died: 31 May 1950, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada

Married: Elizabeth LEBLANC 14 September 1921

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Birth — 1851
5 December 1851
Paspébiac, Canada East

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.

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

1875 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-Nicolas GRENIER and Marguerite ROUSSY 14 September 1875, Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Joseph-James-Stanley-Napoleon GRENIER was born 12 October 1879, Paspébiac, Québec, Canada (Paspebiac)

Joseph-Nicolas was 27 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.