Jean-Louis ALAIN

(b. 28 August 1797 , Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada d. 6 June 1868 , Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Louis ALAIN was born 28 August 1797 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada

Jean-Louis ALAIN was the child of Louis ALAIN and Madeleine LEBLANC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Benjamin ALAIN and Rose BUJOLD (BUGEAUD) (maternal) Jean Baptiste LEBLANC and Marguerite BOUDREAU

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Jean-Louis married Marie-Victoire LEBLANC 29 November 1827 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Victoire LEBLANC was born 25 November 1798 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer). Marie-Victoire died 29 February 1884 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer). Marie-Victoire was the child of Jean LEBLANC and Charlotte BUJOLD.

Jean-Louis ALAIN died 6 June 1868 in Carleton-sur-Mer, 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
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1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
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Jean-Louis ALAIN married

Marie-Victoire LEBLANC-- Date: 29 November 1827 Place: Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada

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Marie-Victoire LEBLANC was the child of Jean LEBLANC and Charlotte BUJOLD

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Children of Jean-Louis ALAIN and Marie-Victoire LEBLANC:

Fabien David ALAIN (b.15 September 1828, Carlton, Gaspie, Quebec, Canada d. 17 April 1907, Tignish, Prince Edward Island, Canada)
m. Marie DOUCET 16 January 1863 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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1797 Birth
28 August 1797
Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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
Jean-Louis ALAIN and Marie-Victoire LEBLANC 29 November 1827, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer)

He was 30 years old.

1828 Birth of Child
Fabien David ALAIN was born 15 September 1828, Carlton, Gaspie, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Louis was 31 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

1863 Marriage of Child
Fabien David ALAIN married 16 January 1863, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada to Marie DOUCET

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.