Alexis CREPEAU

Born

June 11, 1822 , Sorel, Lower Canada

Died

June 1, 1898 , Sorel, Québec, Canada

Age: 76

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Alexis CRÉPEAU Theotiste HUS LEMOINE

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Born: June 11, 1822 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Father: Alexis CRÉPEAU

Mother: Theotiste HUS LEMOINE

Paternal grandparents: Pierre CRÉPEAU , Marie-Pelagie BRISSET (BRISSETTE) dite COURCHESNE

Maternal grandparents: Antoine HUS LEMOINE , Geneviève PELOQUIN dite FÉLIX

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Alexis married Edwidge BERARD-LETENDRE . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Edwidge BERARD-LETENDRE was born September 22, 1832 in Sorel, Lower Canada . Edwidge died December 2, 1918 in Sorel, Québec, Canada .

Alexis CREPEAU died June 1, 1898 in Sorel, Québec, Canada .
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Edwidge BERARD-LETENDRE
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Children of Alexis CREPEAU and Edwidge BERARD-LETENDRE

Marie-Edwidge-Alexina CREPEAU

Born: October 18, 1870, Sorel, Québec, Canada
Died: January 7, 1955, Sorel, Québec, Canada

Married: Delphis MONGEAU

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1822
June 11, 1822
Sorel, Lower Canada

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.