Jean-Louis ALAIN

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

Died

6 June 1868 , Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada

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Louis ALAIN Madeleine LEBLANC

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Born: 28 August 1797 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada

Father: Louis ALAIN

Mother: Madeleine LEBLANC

Paternal grandparents: Benjamin ALAIN , Rose BUJOLD (BUGEAUD)

Maternal grandparents: Jean Baptiste LEBLANC , 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
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
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Marie-Victoire LEBLANC
Marriage date: 29 November 1827
Marriage 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

Born: 15 September 1828, Carlton, Gaspie, Quebec, Canada
Died: 17 April 1907, Tignish, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Married: Marie DOUCET 16 January 1863 Place: Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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Birth — 1797
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.