Louis RIOPEL

(b. 16 May 1794 , L'Assomption, Lower Canada d. 4 December 1869 , Québec Province, Canada )

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Louis RIOPEL was born 16 May 1794 in L'Assomption, Lower Canada

Louis RIOPEL was the child of Joseph RIOPEL and Esther AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph RIOPEL and Marie JULIEN (maternal) Louis AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) and Marie-Louise RICHARD

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Louis married Marie-Josephte-Emilie LIPPE 5 February 1822 in L'Assomption, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Marie-Josephte-Emilie LIPPE was born 11 April 1802 in Lavaltrie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine). Marie-Josephte-Emilie died 10 March 1832 in L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage). Marie-Josephte-Emilie was the child of Jean-René-Ernest LIPPE and Marie-Josephe CHAPUT.

Louis RIOPEL died 4 December 1869 in Québec Province, Canada.

Married 23 October 1832, St-Jacques-de-Montcalm, Quebec, to Esther Rhéaume

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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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Family and Children of Louis RIOPEL

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Louis RIOPEL married

Marie-Josephte-Emilie LIPPE-- Date: 5 February 1822 Place: L'Assomption, Lower Canada
Marie-Josephte-Emilie LIPPE was the child of Jean-René-Ernest LIPPE and Marie-Josephe CHAPUT

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Children of Louis RIOPEL and Marie-Josephte-Emilie LIPPE:

Joseph-Louis RIOPEL (b.11 November 1822, L'Assomption, Lower Canada d. 8 July 1881, St. Theodore, Chertsey, Quebec, Canada)
m. Elmire MADRAN 24 November 1846

Joseph-Adolphe RIOPELLE (b.31 December 1824, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada d. 1 December 1828, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada )

Joseph-Salomon RIOPEL (b.17 April 1827, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada d. 23 April 1827, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada )

Vitaline RIOPELLE (b.27 May 1828, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada d. 26 February 1907, Montréal, Québec, Canada )

Octave RIOPEL (b.2 November 1830, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada d. 1 November 1909, St-Théodore-de-Chertsey, Quebec, Canada)
m. Jane KINSHELLA 28 August 1855

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1794 Birth
16 May 1794
L'Assomption, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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

1822 Marriage / Partner
Louis RIOPEL and Marie-Josephte-Emilie LIPPE 5 February 1822, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage)

He was 27 years old.

1822 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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1822 Birth of Child
Joseph-Louis RIOPEL was born 11 November 1822, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage)

Louis was 28 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Birth of Child
Joseph-Adolphe RIOPELLE was born 31 December 1824, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Louis was 30 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Joseph-Salomon RIOPEL was born 17 April 1827, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Louis was 32 years old.

1828 Birth of Child
Vitaline RIOPELLE was born 27 May 1828, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Louis was 34 years old.

1828 Death of Child
Joseph-Adolphe RIOPELLE died 1 December 1828, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Louis was 34 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1830 Birth of Child
Octave RIOPEL was born 2 November 1830, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Louis was 36 years old.

1832 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Josephte-Emilie LIPPE died 10 March 1832, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage)

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.

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.