Julie DOUCET

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2 September 1818 , Maskinongé, Lower Canada

Died

4 February 1899 , La Pocatière, Québec, Canada

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Michel DOUCET Marie-Geneviève GENEREUX

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Born: 2 September 1818 in Maskinongé, Lower Canada

Father: Michel DOUCET

Mother: Marie-Geneviève GENEREUX

Paternal grandparents: Joseph Charles Elisee DOUCET , Marguerite LANDRY

Maternal grandparents: Antoine GENEREUX , Marie-Thecle PAQUET

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Julie married Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS 12 October 1846 in L'Isle-Verte, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS was born 17 July 1821 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Hospice died 3 November 1889 in La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere). Hospice was the child of Joseph ROY dit DESJARDINS and Felicite SIROIS dite DUPLESSIS.

Julie DOUCET died 4 February 1899 in La Pocatière, 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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Julie DOUCET married

Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS
Marriage date: 12 October 1846
Marriage place: L'Isle-Verte, Canada East

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Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS was the child of Joseph ROY dit DESJARDINS and Felicite SIROIS dite DUPLESSIS

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Julie-Felicite ROY dite DESJARDINS

Born: 12 August 1856, L'Isle-Verte, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Charles-Emile GARON 13 June 1876 Place: La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

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Birth — 1818
2 September 1818
Maskinongé, Lower Canada

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

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)

1846 Marriage / Partner
Julie DOUCET and Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS 12 October 1846, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

She was 28 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Julie-Felicite ROY dite DESJARDINS was born 12 August 1856, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

Julie was 37 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.

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

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1876 Marriage of Child
Julie-Felicite ROY dite DESJARDINS married 13 June 1876, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere) to Charles-Emile GARON

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)