Louise BOUCHARD

(b. 1 November 1795 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 18 March 1869 , Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada )

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Louise BOUCHARD was born 1 November 1795 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Louise BOUCHARD was the child of Pierre-Joseph BOUCHARD and Ursule TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre BOUCHARD and Marie-Geneviève GRENON (maternal) Nicolas TREMBLAY and Madeleine FORTIN

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Louise married Jacques FORTIN 2 September 1823 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jacques FORTIN was born 15 April 1795 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Jacques died 28 October 1887 in Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport). Jacques was the child of Joseph FORTIN and Julienne SIMARD.

Louise BOUCHARD died 18 March 1869 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, 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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Louise BOUCHARD married

Jacques FORTIN-- Date: 2 September 1823 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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Jacques FORTIN was the child of Joseph FORTIN and Julienne SIMARD

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Children of Jacques FORTIN and Louise BOUCHARD:

Marcelline FORTIN (b.16 April 1828, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 10 July 1860, Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Canada East )
m. Abel TREMBLAY 10 February 1846 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee)
m. Magloire GAUTHIER 14 October 1851 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee)

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1795 Birth
1 November 1795
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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

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

1823 Marriage / Partner
Louise BOUCHARD and Jacques FORTIN 2 September 1823, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

She was 27 years old.

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)

1828 Birth of Child
Marcelline FORTIN was born 16 April 1828, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Louise was 32 years old.

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)

1846 Marriage of Child
Marcelline FORTIN married 10 February 1846, Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee) to Abel TREMBLAY

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

1851 Marriage of Child
Marcelline FORTIN married 14 October 1851, Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee) to Magloire GAUTHIER

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

1860 Death of Child
Marcelline FORTIN died 10 July 1860, Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee)

Louise was 64 years old.

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.