Marie DESILETS

Born

4 December 1805 , Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

Died

6 August 1897 , St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada

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Pierre DESILETS Rosalie ELIE

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Born: 4 December 1805 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre DESILETS

Mother: Rosalie ELIE

Paternal grandparents: Louis DESROSIERS dit DÉSILETS , Marie-Catherine FRIGON

Maternal grandparents: Francois ELIE , Marie-Josephe DESROSIERS dite DARGIS

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Marie married Joseph RIVARD dit LORANGER 4 February 1828 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph RIVARD dit LORANGER was born July 1, 1805 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine). Joseph died 23 January 1879 in St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada. Joseph was the child of Joseph-Pierre-Edouard RIVARD dit LORANGER and Marie-Anne TOUPIN.

Marie DESILETS died 6 August 1897 in St-Maurice, Quebec, 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
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Marie DESILETS married

Joseph RIVARD dit LORANGER
Marriage date: 4 February 1828
Marriage place: Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

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Joseph RIVARD dit LORANGER was the child of Joseph-Pierre-Edouard RIVARD dit LORANGER and Marie-Anne TOUPIN

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Children of Joseph RIVARD dit LORANGER and Marie DESILETS

Adolphe LORANGER

Born: abt. 1828, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: abt. 1910,

Married: Melina-Lunina COURCHESNE

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Birth — 1805
4 December 1805
Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

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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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Marie DESILETS and Joseph RIVARD dit LORANGER 4 February 1828, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

She was 22 years old.

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)

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.