Margaret HEWITT

Born

20 February 1793 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

20 November 1871 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

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John HEWITT (HEWETT)Mary MCDOUGAL GILCHRIST

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Born: 20 February 1793 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Father: John HEWITT (HEWETT)

Mother: Mary MCDOUGAL GILCHRIST

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Margaret married Neil MCLAREN 10 August 1811 in Québec, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Neil MCLAREN was born abt. 1766 in Loch Earn, Scotland. Neil died 25 September 1844 in Port-au-Persil, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada.

Margaret HEWITT died 20 November 1871 in Chicoutimi, 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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Margaret HEWITT married

Neil MCLAREN
Marriage date: 10 August 1811
Marriage place: Québec, Lower Canada

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Children of Neil MCLAREN and Margaret HEWITT

Janet MCLAREN

Born: 20 June 1816, La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Flavien (Fabien) TREMBLAY 11 July 1836 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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Birth — 1793
20 February 1793
La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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

1811 Marriage / Partner
Margaret HEWITT and Neil MCLAREN 10 August 1811, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

She was 18 years old.

1816 Birth of Child
Janet MCLAREN was born 20 June 1816, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Margaret was 23 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 Marriage of Child
Janet MCLAREN married 11 July 1836, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Flavien (Fabien) TREMBLAY

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)

1844 Death of Spouse/Partner
Neil MCLAREN died 25 September 1844, Port-au-Persil, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada

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.