Marguerite COMEAU

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24 November 1810 , Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Died

13 June 1886 , Princeville, Canada

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Francois COMEAU Marie BOURBEAU

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Born: 24 November 1810 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Father: Francois COMEAU

Mother: Marie BOURBEAU

Paternal grandparents: François COMEAU , Geneviève DUBOIS dite CLEMENT

Maternal grandparents: Ignace-Francois-Xavier BOURBEAU , Marie-Anne PROVENCHER

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Marguerite married Moise CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU 25 October 1831 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Moise CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU was born 27 August 1806 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly). Moise died 21 November 1887 in Princeville, Canada. Moise was the child of Joseph CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU and Marie-Madeleine LACOURSE dite DAVID.

Marguerite COMEAU died 13 June 1886 in Princeville, 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
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Moise CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU
Marriage date: 25 October 1831
Marriage place: Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada
Moise CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU was the child of Joseph CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU and Marie-Madeleine LACOURSE dite DAVID

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Children of Moise CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU and Marguerite COMEAU

Elisabeth (Eliza) CARIGNAN

Born: March 1855, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Godefroy MOREAU 19 November 1872 Place: Victoriaville, Québec, Canada (Arthabaska Station)

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Birth — 1810
24 November 1810
Bécancour, Nicolet, 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

1831 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite COMEAU and Moise CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU 25 October 1831, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly)

She was 20 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)

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.

1855 Birth of Child
Elisabeth (Eliza) CARIGNAN was born March 1855, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Marguerite was 44 years old.

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.