André DUHAMEL

Born

22 April 1800 , Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Died

02/25/1882 , Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada

Age: 82

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Jean-François DUHAMEL Elisabeth GIROUARD

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Born: 22 April 1800 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-François DUHAMEL

Mother: Elisabeth GIROUARD

Paternal grandparents: Pierre DUHAMEL , Marie-Marguerite DUPRÉ

Maternal grandparents: Joseph GIROUARD , Nathalie Anastasie LEBLANC

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André married Marie-Louise DUPRE 3 January 1827 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada . Marie-Louise DUPRE was born 6 October 1807 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Marie-Louise died 7 October 1901 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Marie-Louise was the child of Louis DUPRE and Marie-Louise LARUE.

André DUHAMEL died 02/25/1882 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada .

Marié à Marie-Louise Dupré le 23 janvier 1827 à Saint-Ours, 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
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André DUHAMEL married

Marie-Louise DUPRE
Marriage date: 3 January 1827
Marriage place: Saint-Ours, Lower Canada
Marie-Louise DUPRE was the child of Louis DUPRE and Marie-Louise LARUE

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Birth — 1800
22 April 1800
Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
André DUHAMEL and Marie-Louise DUPRE 3 January 1827, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

He was 26 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.