Jean-Baptiste OUELLET

Born

23 May 1832 , Cacouna, Lower Canada

Died

26 July 1895 , St-Hubert de Rivière-du-Loup, Canada

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André OUELLET Victoire MICHAUD

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Born: 23 May 1832 in Cacouna, Lower Canada

Father: André OUELLET

Mother: Victoire MICHAUD

Paternal grandparents: Andre OUELLET , Victoire ROY dite DESJARDINS

Maternal grandparents: François-Marie MICHAUD , Marie-Anne LEVASSEUR

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Jean-Baptiste married Caroline SIROIS 3 September 1855 in Cacouna, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Caroline SIROIS was born 25 May 1832 in Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna). Caroline died 27 July 1908 in St-Hubert de Rivière-du-Loup, Canada. Caroline was the child of Jean SIROIS and Catherine BOISBRIAND.

Jean-Baptiste OUELLET died 26 July 1895 in St-Hubert de Rivière-du-Loup, Canada.
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1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Spouse & Children of Jean-Baptiste OUELLET

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Jean-Baptiste OUELLET married

Caroline SIROIS
Marriage date: 3 September 1855
Marriage place: Cacouna, Canada East
Caroline SIROIS was the child of Jean SIROIS and Catherine BOISBRIAND

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Ovide OUELLET

Born: 5 August 1872, St-Epiphane, Canada
Died: 26 July 1957, Saint-Pierre-Lamy, Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada

Married: Delima TREMBLAY 1907

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Birth — 1832
23 May 1832
Cacouna, Lower Canada

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)

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.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste OUELLET and Caroline SIROIS 3 September 1855, Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna)

He was 23 years old.

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.