Nicolas VARIN

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27 February 1835 , La Prairie, Lower Canada

Died

9 September 1900 , Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

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Nicolas VARIN Elisabeth CHENAIL

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Born: 27 February 1835 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Father: Nicolas VARIN

Mother: Elisabeth CHENAIL

Paternal grandparents: Pierre VARIN dit LAPISTOLE , Amable DAIGNEAU (DENIAU)

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste CHENAIL (GENAILLE) , Marie-Catherine-Hélène RAYMOND dite TOULOUSE

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Nicolas married Marguerite GAGNE . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite GAGNE was born abt. 1836 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec).

Nicolas VARIN died 9 September 1900 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, 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
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Marie Louise VARIN

Born: 19 June 1874, Granby, Québec, Canada
Died: April 6, 1951, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Narcisse (Nelson) TREMBLAY 23 June 1892 Place: Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)

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Birth — 1835
27 February 1835
La Prairie, Lower Canada

Baptism
Name: Nicolas Varin
Event Type: Baptême (Baptism)
Baptism Date: 27 Févr 1835
Baptism Place: Saint-Philippe, Québec, Canada
Baptism Church: St-Philippe
Place of Worship or Institution: Laprairie
Father:
Nicolas Varin
Mother:
Isabelle Chenais
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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.

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

1874 Birth of Child
Marie Louise VARIN was born 19 June 1874, Granby, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Granby)

Nicolas was 39 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)

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 Marriage of Child
Marie Louise VARIN married 23 June 1892, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville) to Narcisse (Nelson) TREMBLAY

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

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

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

Burial
Name: Nicolas Varin
Gender: homme (Male)
Death Age: 64
Burial Age: 64
Event Type: Enterrement (Burial)
Birth Date: abt 1836
Death Date: 1900
Burial Date: 9 Sept 1900
Burial Place: Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada
Burial Church: St-Jacques-Le-Mineur
Spouse:
Marguerite Gagné
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783