Christophe GAUTHIER

Born

21 February 1815 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

5 May 1883 , Jonquière, Québec, Canada

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Liguori-Igonie GAUTHIER Marie-Blaise TREMBLAY

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Born: 21 February 1815 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Liguori-Igonie GAUTHIER

Mother: Marie-Blaise TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: Pierre GONTHIER , Therese TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents: François-Xavier TREMBLAY , Marie-Madeleine DURETTE

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Christophe married Josephte TREMBLAY 30 April 1844 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . Josephte TREMBLAY was born 9 April 1818 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Josephte died 2 May 1865 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay). Josephte was the child of Bernard TREMBLAY and Adelaide BOUCHARD.

Christophe GAUTHIER died 5 May 1883 in Jonquière, Québec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Josephte TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 30 April 1844
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Canada East
Josephte TREMBLAY was the child of Bernard TREMBLAY and Adelaide BOUCHARD

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Birth — 1815
21 February 1815
Les Éboulements, 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

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)

1844 Marriage / Partner
Christophe GAUTHIER and Josephte TREMBLAY 30 April 1844, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 29 years old.

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)

1865 Death of Spouse/Partner
Josephte TREMBLAY died 2 May 1865, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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.