Louis VOYER

Born

25 August 1804 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Died

15 May 1886 , Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste VOYER Marie-Louise DUMAY (DUMAIS)

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Born: 25 August 1804 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste VOYER

Mother: Marie-Louise DUMAY (DUMAIS)

Paternal grandparents: Etienne VOYER , Madeleine DUPONT

Maternal grandparents: Pierre ROSSIGNOL dit DUMAY (DUMAIS) , Marie-Catherine MICHAUD

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Louis married Éléonore PELLETIER 1 March 1824 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 10 children.
Éléonore PELLETIER was born 5 November 1804 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Éléonore died September 27, 1881 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Éléonore was the child of Germain PELLETIER and Theotiste LIZOTTE.

Louis VOYER died 15 May 1886 in Rimouski, 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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Louis VOYER married

Éléonore PELLETIER
Marriage date: 1 March 1824
Marriage place: Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada
Éléonore PELLETIER was the child of Germain PELLETIER and Theotiste LIZOTTE

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Children of Louis VOYER and Éléonore PELLETIER

Louis VOYER

Born: 12 January 1826, Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Died: 26 June 1910, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada

Jean Baptiste VOYER

Born: abt. 1830, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 18 July 1910, Salem, Massachusetts, USA

Beatrice VOYER

Born: abt. 1830, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Ambroise VOYER

Born: 11 January 1833, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Lower Canada
Died: 12 October 1917, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Georges VOYER

Born: 5 October 1834, Rimouski, Lower Canada
Died: 20 August 1917, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edouard VOYER

Born: 19 September 1839, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Eleonore VOYER

Born: 10 December 1840, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Lower Canada
Died: 5 May 1923, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Antoine VOYER

Born: 6 August 1842, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Canada East
Died: ,

Marie Alphonsine VOYER

Born: 5 July 1845, Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada
Died: 4 April 1846, Rimouski, Canada East

Ferdinand VOYER

Born: 10 March 1848, Rimouski, Canada East
Died: 11 November 1894, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1804
25 August 1804
Kamouraska, 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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Louis VOYER and Éléonore PELLETIER 1 March 1824, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

He was 19 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Birth of Child
Louis VOYER was born 12 January 1826, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

Louis was 21 years old.

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

1833 Birth of Child
Ambroise VOYER was born 11 January 1833, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

Louis was 28 years old.

1834 Birth of Child
Georges VOYER was born 5 October 1834, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Louis was 30 years old.

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)

1839 Birth of Child
Edouard VOYER was born 19 September 1839, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

Louis was 35 years old.

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Birth of Child
Eleonore VOYER was born 10 December 1840, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

Louis was 36 years old.

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1842 Birth of Child
Antoine VOYER was born 6 August 1842, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

Louis was 37 years old.

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)

1845 Birth of Child
Marie Alphonsine VOYER was born 5 July 1845, Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

Louis was 40 years old.

1846 Death of Child
Marie Alphonsine VOYER died 4 April 1846, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Louis was 41 years old.

1848 Birth of Child
Ferdinand VOYER was born 10 March 1848, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Louis was 43 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.

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.

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)

1881 Death of Spouse/Partner
Éléonore PELLETIER died September 27, 1881, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

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)

Death — 1886
15 May 1886
Rimouski, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 81.

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