Sophie MARCOTTE

Born

1 January 1805 , Cap-Santé, Lower Canada

Died

24 November 1878 , St-Stanislas, Champlain, Quebec, Canada

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Joseph MARCOTTE Marguerite LANGLOIS

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Born: 1 January 1805 in Cap-Santé, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph MARCOTTE

Mother: Marguerite LANGLOIS

Paternal grandparents: François MARCOTTE , Marie-Josephte MORISSET

Maternal grandparents: Joseph LANGLOIS , Marie-Josephte GERMAIN

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Sophie married Charles BEDARD 14 April 1828 in Cap-Santé, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Charles BEDARD was born 6 March 1800 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal). Charles died 2 May 1879 in St-Stanislas, Champlain, Quebec, Canada. Charles was the child of Joseph BEDARD and Marie-Angélique BERGEVIN dite LANGEVIN.

Sophie MARCOTTE died 24 November 1878 in St-Stanislas, Champlain, 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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Sophie MARCOTTE married

Charles BEDARD
Marriage date: 14 April 1828
Marriage place: Cap-Santé, Lower Canada

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Charles BEDARD was the child of Joseph BEDARD and Marie-Angélique BERGEVIN dite LANGEVIN

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Aglaee BEDARD

Born: 24 September 1848, St-Stanislas, Champlain, Canada East
Died: 22 August 1932, St-Adelphe, Champlain, Quebec, Canada

Married: Narcisse ASSELIN 3 September 1867

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Birth — 1805
1 January 1805
Cap-Santé, 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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Sophie MARCOTTE and Charles BEDARD 14 April 1828, Cap-Santé, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-du-Cap-Sante)

She was 23 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Aglaee BEDARD was born 24 September 1848, St-Stanislas, Champlain, Québec, Canada

Sophie was 43 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.