Édouard MARCHESSAULT

(b. 28 February 1838 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 28 January 1874 , Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada )

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Édouard MARCHESSAULT was born 28 February 1838 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Édouard MARCHESSAULT was the child of Théophile MARCHESSAULT (MARCHESSEAU) and Flavie TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste MARCHESSAULT and Marie-Louise ROY (maternal) Augustin TREMBLAY and Marie-Agathe DENIAU (DAIGNEAU)

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Édouard married Edwidge MONBLEAU 4 October 1870 in Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children. Edwidge MONBLEAU was born abt. 1856 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Edwidge died 26 February 1920 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.

Édouard MARCHESSAULT died 28 January 1874 in Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada.

Married 4 October 1870, St-Valentin, Quebec, to Edwidge Monbleau

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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
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Édouard MARCHESSAULT married

Edwidge MONBLEAU-- Date: 4 October 1870 Place: Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

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Children of Édouard MARCHESSAULT and Edwidge MONBLEAU:

Marie-Edwidge MARCHESSEAU (b.7 July 1871, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada d. 5 September 1874, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada)

Josephine-Angelina MARCHESSEAU (b.6 August 1872, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada d. 11 September 1874, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada)

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1838 Birth
28 February 1838
L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

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)

1851
Living in St Valentin, Huntingdon County, Quebec: Theophile Marchessault, age 56, birthplace L'Beadie, abt. 1796; wife, Flavie Tremblay, age 46, birthplace St. Phillipe; Paul, age 18; Souphine?, age 16; Edward, age 14; Doutilde?, age 12; Aquorte? (male), age 9; Marie, age 7; Laurent, age 5
1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
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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)

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.