Vital DEMERS

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11 May 1805 , Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

Died

16 November 1893 , Ripon, Québec, Canada

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Pierre DEMERS Veronique LEFEBVRE

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Born: 11 May 1805 in Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre DEMERS

Mother: Veronique LEFEBVRE

Paternal grandparents: Michel DEMERS , Marie-Louise DUMOUCHEL

Maternal grandparents: Pierre LEFEBVRE , Amable CHOLETTE dite LAVIOLETTE

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Vital married Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE 23 January 1826 in Montebello, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE was born 8 October 1800 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Victoire died 18 October 1871 in Ripon, Quebec, Canada. Victoire was the child of Joseph-Francois THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE and Marie-Anne DENOMME.

Vital DEMERS died 16 November 1893 in Ripon, 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
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Vital DEMERS married

Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE
Marriage date: 23 January 1826
Marriage place: Montebello, Lower Canada

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Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE was the child of Joseph-Francois THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE and Marie-Anne DENOMME

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Children of Vital DEMERS and Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE

Julie DEMERS

Born: 27 November 1827, Montebello, Lower Canada
Died: 22 February 1885, Saint-André-Avellin, Canada

Married: Joseph LACOSTE 1847

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Birth — 1805
11 May 1805
Sainte-Geneviève, 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)

1826 Marriage / Partner
Vital DEMERS and Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE 23 January 1826, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

He was 20 years old.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Julie DEMERS was born 27 November 1827, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

Vital was 22 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)

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.