Benoni PLOURDE

(b. 8 April 1805 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada d. 28 October 1875 , Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Benoni PLOURDE was born 8 April 1805 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Benoni PLOURDE was the child of Pierre PLOURDE and Perpetue HUDON dite BEAULIEU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE and Marie-Anne HUDON dite BEAULIEU (maternal) Maurice-Noel HUDON dit BEAULIEU and Madeleine MARTIN

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Benoni married Marguerite JEAN 24 February 1829 in Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite JEAN was born 6 September 1812 in Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges). Marguerite was the child of Pierre JEAN and Rosalie LEPAGE.

Benoni PLOURDE died 28 October 1875 in Shippagan, New Brunswick, 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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Benoni PLOURDE married

Marguerite JEAN-- Date: 24 February 1829 Place: Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada
Marguerite JEAN was the child of Pierre JEAN and Rosalie LEPAGE

Children of Benoni PLOURDE and Marguerite JEAN:

Benoni PLOURDE (b.abt. 1833, , Canada d. 5 March 1893, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada )
m. Tharsille FRIGAULT 27 September 1858 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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1805 Birth
8 April 1805
Rivière-Ouelle, 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)

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)

1829 Marriage / Partner
Benoni PLOURDE and Marguerite JEAN 24 February 1829, Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston)

He was 23 years old.

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

1858 Marriage of Child
Benoni PLOURDE married 27 September 1858, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada to Tharsille FRIGAULT

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.