Pierre RATELLE

Born

abt. 1785 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

27 September 1875 , Ste-Mélanie, Joliette, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste RATEL (RATELLE)Marguerite JANOT dite BELHUMEUR

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Born: abt. 1785 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste RATEL (RATELLE)

Mother: Marguerite JANOT dite BELHUMEUR

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste RATEL (RATELLE) , Marie-Josephte BEAUDRY

Maternal grandparents: Charles JANOT dit BELHUMEUR , Marguerite LANDRY

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Pierre married Marguerite JOLY 20 January 1817 in Repentigny, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite JOLY was born 29 July 1791 in Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier). Marguerite died 23 March 1873 in Ste-Mélanie, Joliette, Québec, Canada. Marguerite was the child of Pierre JOLY and Marie-Josephte BLASSE dite BELHUMEUR.

Pierre RATELLE died 27 September 1875 in Ste-Mélanie, Joliette, 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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Pierre RATELLE married

Marguerite JOLY
Marriage date: 20 January 1817
Marriage place: Repentigny, Lower Canada
Marguerite JOLY was the child of Pierre JOLY and Marie-Josephte BLASSE dite BELHUMEUR

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Children of Pierre RATELLE and Marguerite JOLY

Angelique RATELLE

Born: abt. 1824, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Pierre ROUTHIER 30 July 1844

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1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

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Pierre RATELLE and Marguerite JOLY 20 January 1817, Repentigny, Québec, Canada (La Purification-de-Repentigny) (St-Paul-l'Hermite)

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)

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

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.