Louis GONTHIER

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22 October 1805 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

22 February 1878 , Québec, Québec, Canada

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Louis GONTHIER Josephte JEAN

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Born: 22 October 1805 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Louis GONTHIER

Mother: Josephte JEAN

Paternal grandparents: Louis GONTHIER , Geneviève BOUCHARD

Maternal grandparents: Francois-Xavier JEAN , Angélique-Marguerite BELANGER

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Louis married Madeleine BOUCHARD 20 February 1827 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Madeleine BOUCHARD was born 15 July 1805 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Madeleine died 16 March 1878 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee). Madeleine was the child of Didace-Martin BOUCHARD and Madeleine PERRON.

Louis GONTHIER died 22 February 1878 in Québec, 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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Madeleine BOUCHARD
Marriage date: 20 February 1827
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Madeleine BOUCHARD was the child of Didace-Martin BOUCHARD and Madeleine PERRON

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Children of Louis GONTHIER and Madeleine BOUCHARD

Louis GAUTHIER

Born: 4 April 1829, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Died: 29 April 1893, St-Côme-de-Kennebec, Canada

Married: Elisabeth AUDET 23 February 1852 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Marcelline GAUTHIER

Born: 20 September 1843, Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Canada East
Died: 5 November 1916, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Married: Charles TREMBLAY 18 February 1873 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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Birth — 1805
22 October 1805
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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Louis GONTHIER and Madeleine BOUCHARD 20 February 1827, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 21 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 Birth of Child
Louis GAUTHIER was born 4 April 1829, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Louis was 23 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Marcelline GAUTHIER was born 20 September 1843, Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee)

Louis was 37 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.

1852 Marriage of Child
Louis GAUTHIER married 23 February 1852, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Elisabeth AUDET

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 Marriage of Child
Marcelline GAUTHIER married 18 February 1873, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Charles TREMBLAY

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.