Mathias DUCHESNE

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15 June 1812 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

7 May 1880 , Métabetchouan, Canada

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Pierre DUCHESNE Marie-Reine GAUDREAU

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Born: 15 June 1812 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre DUCHESNE

Mother: Marie-Reine GAUDREAU

Paternal grandparents: Pierre DUCHESNE dit LAPIERRE , Marie-Julie GIRARD

Maternal grandparents: Francois GAUDREAU , Marie-Josephe-Victoire TREMBLAY

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Mathias married Madeleine TREMBLAY 30 January 1838 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Madeleine TREMBLAY was born 26 February 1810 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Madeleine died 18 July 1899 in Métabetchouan, Canada. Madeleine was the child of Joseph-Marie TREMBLAY and Marie-Marthe CLAVEAU.

Mathias DUCHESNE died 7 May 1880 in Métabetchouan, 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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Mathias DUCHESNE married

Madeleine TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 30 January 1838
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Madeleine TREMBLAY was the child of Joseph-Marie TREMBLAY and Marie-Marthe CLAVEAU

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Children of Mathias DUCHESNE and Madeleine TREMBLAY

Emilie DUCHESNE

Born: 17 November 1838, La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Died: 25 May 1875, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada

Arthemise DUCHESNE

Born: abt. 1840, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Arsene DUCHESNE

Born: 5 October 1846, La Malbaie, Canada East
Died: 28 January 1917, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada

Simon DUCHESNE

Born: 3 March 1849, Sainte-Agnès, Canada East
Died: 11 August 1911, Métabetchouan, Canada

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Birth — 1812
15 June 1812
La Malbaie, 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)

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
Mathias DUCHESNE and Madeleine TREMBLAY 30 January 1838, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 25 years old.

1838 Birth of Child
Emilie DUCHESNE was born 17 November 1838, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Mathias was 26 years old.

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)

1846 Birth of Child
Arsene DUCHESNE was born 5 October 1846, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Mathias was 34 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 Birth of Child
Simon DUCHESNE was born 3 March 1849, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

Mathias was 36 years old.

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

1875 Death of Child
Emilie DUCHESNE died 25 May 1875, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Mathias was 62 years old.

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)

Death — 1880
7 May 1880
Métabetchouan, Canada
He died at the age of 67.

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