Marguerite LEVESQUE

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15 April 1814 , Rimouski, Lower Canada

Died

23 July 1888 , Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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Michel LEVESQUE Basilisse LEPAGE

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Born: 15 April 1814 in Rimouski, Lower Canada

Father: Michel LEVESQUE

Mother: Basilisse LEPAGE

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste LEVESQUE , Marie-Françoise BOUILLON

Maternal grandparents: Charles LEPAGE , Marie-Anne DION dite GUYON

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Marguerite married Calixte-Marcellin ST-LAURENT 3 February 1834 in Rimouski, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Calixte-Marcellin ST-LAURENT was born 2 October 1807 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Calixte-Marcellin died 5 December 1868 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Calixte-Marcellin was the child of Germain ST-LAURENT and Marie-Anastasie CANUEL.

Marguerite LEVESQUE died 23 July 1888 in Rimouski, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Marguerite LEVESQUE married

Calixte-Marcellin ST-LAURENT
Marriage date: 3 February 1834
Marriage place: Rimouski, Lower Canada
Calixte-Marcellin ST-LAURENT was the child of Germain ST-LAURENT and Marie-Anastasie CANUEL

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Jules-Julien ST-LAURENT

Born: 27 March 1837, Rimouski, Lower Canada
Died: 18 March 1919, St-Prosper, Canada

Married: Leontine-Eleontine TREMBLAY 13 July 1863 Place: , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

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Birth — 1814
15 April 1814
Rimouski, 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

1834 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite LEVESQUE and Calixte-Marcellin ST-LAURENT 3 February 1834, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

She was 19 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 Birth of Child
Jules-Julien ST-LAURENT was born 27 March 1837, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Marguerite was 22 years old.

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

1863 Marriage of Child
Jules-Julien ST-LAURENT married 13 July 1863, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Leontine-Eleontine TREMBLAY

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.

1868 Death of Spouse/Partner
Calixte-Marcellin ST-LAURENT died 5 December 1868, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

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.

Death — 1888
23 July 1888
Rimouski, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 74.

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