Marie POTVIN

Born

9 October 1811 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

8 January 1861 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East

Marie married Vital FILION 3 February 1835 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Vital FILION was born 19 February 1811 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . Vital died 20 March 1890 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada . Vital was the child of Frederic FILION and Angelique VERREAULT .

Parents & Family of Marie POTVIN

Parents of Marie POTVIN

Father

Francois POTVIN

Mother

Marie-Anne THIBAULT

Grandparents of Marie POTVIN

Paternal grandparents

Jean-Baptiste POITEVIN dit POTVIN Barbe GAGNON

Maternal grandparents

André THIBAULT Agathe SIMARD

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Marie POTVIN

Marie POTVIN married

Vital FILION
Marriage date: 3 February 1835
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

See marriage record for Marie POTVIN and Vital FILION
Vital FILION was the child of Frederic FILION and Angelique VERREAULT

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Vital FILION and Marie POTVIN

Dina FILION

Born: 23 March 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: 6 August 1910, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Antoine TREMBLAY 13 April 1874

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1811
9 October 1811
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Marie POTVIN and Vital FILION 3 February 1835, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 23 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Dina FILION was born 23 March 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie was 32 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