Julie DUVAL

Born

28 March 1820 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Died

9 September 1883 , St-Eugène-de-L'Islet, Quebec, Canada

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Pierre DUVAL Clothilde VAILLANCOURT

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Born: 28 March 1820 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre DUVAL

Mother: Clothilde VAILLANCOURT

Paternal grandparents: Pierre DUVAL , Marie-Anne CARON

Maternal grandparents: Ignace VAILLANCOURT , Marie-Elisabeth LEMIEUX

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Julie married Pierre POITRAS 29 August 1843 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Pierre POITRAS was born abt. 1817 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Pierre was the child of Basile POITRAS and Angele GAGNON.

Julie DUVAL died 9 September 1883 in St-Eugène-de-L'Islet, Quebec, 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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Julie DUVAL married

Pierre POITRAS
Marriage date: 29 August 1843
Marriage place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada East
Pierre POITRAS was the child of Basile POITRAS and Angele GAGNON

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Pierre POITRAS

Born: 28 March 1847, L'Islet, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Marie-Osithe TREMBLAY 13 January 1874 Place: L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

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Birth — 1820
28 March 1820
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

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

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)

1843 Marriage / Partner
Julie DUVAL and Pierre POITRAS 29 August 1843, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

She was 23 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1847 Birth of Child
Pierre POITRAS was born 28 March 1847, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

Julie was 27 years old.

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

1874 Marriage of Child
Pierre POITRAS married 13 January 1874, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours) to Marie-Osithe TREMBLAY

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)