Damase GONTHIER

Born

1 May 1795 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

9 December 1866 , Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Canada East

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Jean-Marc GONTHIER Genevieve COULOMBE

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Born: 1 May 1795 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Marc GONTHIER

Mother: Genevieve COULOMBE

Paternal grandparents: Jean GONTHIER , Marie-Josephte GAGNON

Maternal grandparents: Antoine COULOMBE , Genevieve MAGNAN

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Damase married Ursule PERRON 2 February 1818 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Ursule PERRON was born abt. 1790 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Ursule died 20 December 1859 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee). Ursule was the child of Jean-Pierre PERRON and Elisabeth GIRARD.

Damase GONTHIER died 9 December 1866 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Canada East .
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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
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Damase GONTHIER married

Ursule PERRON
Marriage date: 2 February 1818
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Ursule PERRON was the child of Jean-Pierre PERRON and Elisabeth GIRARD

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Children of Damase GONTHIER and Ursule PERRON

Basilisse GAUTHIER (GONTHIER)

Born: 27 November 1818, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Died: 30 April 1874, Matane, Québec, Canada

Married: Laurent TREMBLAY 2 March 1840 Place: La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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Birth — 1795
1 May 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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Damase GONTHIER and Ursule PERRON 2 February 1818, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 22 years old.

1818 Birth of Child
Basilisse GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) was born 27 November 1818, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Damase was 23 years old.

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

1840 Marriage of Child
Basilisse GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) married 2 March 1840, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic) to Laurent TREMBLAY

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.

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