Adolphe DUFOUR

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18 February 1833 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

8 November 1890 , La Malbaie, Québec, Canada

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Roger DUFOUR Adelaide TREMBLAY

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Born: 18 February 1833 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Father: Roger DUFOUR

Mother: Adelaide TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: Timothee DUFOUR , Elisabeth SIMARD

Maternal grandparents: Antoine TREMBLAY , Romaine TREMBLAY

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Adolphe married Edesse HARVEY 15 February 1853 in La Malbaie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Edesse HARVEY was born 31 August 1831 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Edesse died 26 December 1903 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Edesse was the child of Michel HARVEY and Euphemie OTIS.

Adolphe DUFOUR died 8 November 1890 in La Malbaie, 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
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Adolphe DUFOUR married

Edesse HARVEY
Marriage date: 15 February 1853
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Canada East
Edesse HARVEY was the child of Michel HARVEY and Euphemie OTIS

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Children of Adolphe DUFOUR and Edesse HARVEY

Maria DUFOUR

Born: abt. 1862, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Lucien TREMBLAY 29 March 1900

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Birth — 1833
18 February 1833
La Malbaie, 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)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Adolphe DUFOUR and Edesse HARVEY 15 February 1853, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 20 years old.

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.