Louis-Benjamin BOURDAGES

(b. 4 November 1787 , Bonaventure, Province of Québec, Canada d. 27 April 1872 , Bonaventure, Québec, Canada )

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Louis-Benjamin BOURDAGES was born 4 November 1787 in Bonaventure, Province of Québec, Canada

Louis-Benjamin BOURDAGES was the child of Benjamin BOURDAGE and Marie Esther BUJOLD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Raymond BOURDAGE and Esther LEBLANC (maternal) Francois Placide BUJOLD and Marie Josephe BERNARD

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

Louis-Benjamin married Julie ARBOUR 8 January 1816 in Bonaventure, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julie ARBOUR was born 6 December 1795 in Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure). Julie died 14 August 1881 in Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure). Julie was the child of Charlemagne ARBOUR and Marie-Angelique BABIN.

Louis-Benjamin BOURDAGES died 27 April 1872 in Bonaventure, 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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Louis-Benjamin BOURDAGES married

Julie ARBOUR-- Date: 8 January 1816 Place: Bonaventure, Lower Canada

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Julie ARBOUR was the child of Charlemagne ARBOUR and Marie-Angelique BABIN

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Children of Louis-Benjamin BOURDAGES and Julie ARBOUR:

Jean-Louis BOURDAGES (b.6 July 1837, Bonaventure, Lower Canada d. 13 July 1903, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada )
m. Margaret HALL 8 August 1865 in Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

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1787 Birth
4 November 1787
Bonaventure, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1816 Marriage / Partner
Louis-Benjamin BOURDAGES and Julie ARBOUR 8 January 1816, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

He was 28 years old.

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

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

1837 Birth of Child
Jean-Louis BOURDAGES was born 6 July 1837, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

Louis-Benjamin was 49 years old.

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)

1865 Marriage of Child
Jean-Louis BOURDAGES married 8 August 1865, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure) to Margaret HALL

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.