Joseph BOLDUC

Born

8 May 1827 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

22 September 1899 , Chambord, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

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Michel BOLDUC Quirille GAGNON

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Born: 8 May 1827 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Michel BOLDUC

Mother: Quirille GAGNON

Paternal grandparents: Antoine BOLDUC , Theotiste ST-GELAIS dite BRADETTE

Maternal grandparents: Damase GAGNON , Elisabeth SIMARD

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Joseph married Zoe TREMBLAY 14 October 1848 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East . Zoe TREMBLAY was born 18 January 1829 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. Zoe was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Adelaide SIMARD.

Joseph BOLDUC died 22 September 1899 in Chambord, Lac-Saint-Jean, 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.

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Zoe TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 14 October 1848
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Zoe TREMBLAY was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Adelaide SIMARD

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Birth — 1827
8 May 1827
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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

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)

1848 Marriage / Partner
Joseph BOLDUC and Zoe TREMBLAY 14 October 1848, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 21 years old.

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

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.