Mathilde FORTIN

Born

9 July 1832 , Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada

Died

22 October 1900 , Métabetchouan, Quebec, Canada

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Antoine FORTIN Judith MENARD

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Born: 9 July 1832 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada

Father: Antoine FORTIN

Mother: Judith MENARD

Paternal grandparents: Michel FORTIN , Agnès SIMARD

Maternal grandparents: Jacques MENARD , Marie LAVOIE

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Mathilde married Augustin DORÉ 8 October 1850 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Augustin DORÉ was born 15 August 1828 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. Augustin died 27 October 1904 in Métabetchouan, Quebec, Canada. Augustin was the child of Augustin-Gregoire DORÉ and Quirille THIBAULT.

Mathilde FORTIN died 22 October 1900 in Métabetchouan, Quebec, 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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Mathilde FORTIN married

Augustin DORÉ
Marriage date: 8 October 1850
Marriage place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East

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Augustin DORÉ was the child of Augustin-Gregoire DORÉ and Quirille THIBAULT

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Children of Augustin DORÉ and Mathilde FORTIN

Marie DORÉ

Born: abt. 1850, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Michel TREMBLAY 25 October 1870 Place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Marie-Louise DORÉ

Born: 8 July 1859, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East
Died: 18 January 1943, Sainte-Croix, Lac à la Croix, Métabetchouan, Québec, Canada

Married: François-Aristide TREMBLAY 22 January 1878 Place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Anna DORÉ

Born: abt. 1870, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Joseph TREMBLAY 5 November 1889

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Birth — 1832
9 July 1832
Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, 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)

1850 Marriage / Partner
Mathilde FORTIN and Augustin DORÉ 8 October 1850, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

She was 18 years old.

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

1859 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise DORÉ was born 8 July 1859, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Mathilde was 27 years old.

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.