Pierre MENARD

Born

23 April 1789 , La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

28 December 1878 , Québec Province, Canada

Pierre married Felicite CATTEMAN 25 February 1811 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Felicite CATTEMAN was born 20 June 1791 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . Felicite died 5 July 1872 in Québec Province, Canada. Felicite was the child of Johannes-Konrad GERDMANN (CATTEMAN) and Felicite LONGTIN .

Parents & Family of Pierre MENARD

Parents of Pierre MENARD

Father

François MENARD dit BELLEROSE

Mother

Marie-Anne VAUTRIN

Grandparents of Pierre MENARD

Paternal grandparents

Antoine MENARD dit BELLEROSE Marie-Françoise DAIGNEAU (DENEAU) (DENIAU)

Maternal grandparents

Charles VAUTRIN dit BIENVENU Catherine BOIRE

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Pierre MENARD

Pierre MENARD married

Felicite CATTEMAN
Marriage date: 25 February 1811
Marriage place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Felicite CATTEMAN was the child of Johannes-Konrad GERDMANN (CATTEMAN) and Felicite LONGTIN

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Pierre MENARD and Felicite CATTEMAN

Firmin MENARD

Born: abt. 1834, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Marie ARCOUET 18 July 1854 Place: Napierville, Canada East

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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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 — 1789
23 April 1789
La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

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)

1811 Marriage / Partner
Pierre MENARD and Felicite CATTEMAN 25 February 1811, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 21 years old.

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)

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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Firmin MENARD married 18 July 1854, Napierville, Canada East to Marie ARCOUET

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.