Onesime  ROCHEFORT

Born

28 October 1842 ,  Sainte-Agnès, Canada East

Died

24 June 1906 ,  La Malbaie, Québec, Canada

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Joseph ROCHEFORTMarie-Radegonde TREMBLAY

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Born: 28 October 1842 in Sainte-Agnès, Canada East

Father: Joseph ROCHEFORT

Mother: Marie-Radegonde TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: Pascal ROCHEFORT dit LURET , Cecile GAGNON

Maternal grandparents: Joseph-Marie TREMBLAY , Marie-Marthe CLAVEAU

Onesime ROCHEFORT died 24 June 1906 in La Malbaie, 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.
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Birth — 1842
28 October 1842
Sainte-Agnès, Canada East

 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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

 1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

 1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

 1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

 1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

 1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

 1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

 1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

 1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

 1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England

 1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

 1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

Death — 1906
24 June 1906
La Malbaie, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 63.

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