Jean LAVOIE

Born

6 December 1802 , Rimouski, Lower Canada

Died

11 December 1886 , Pointe-au-Père, Canada

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Louis-Marie LAVOIE Genevieve GUIMOND

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Born: 6 December 1802 in Rimouski, Lower Canada

Father: Louis-Marie LAVOIE

Mother: Genevieve GUIMOND

Paternal grandparents: Louis LAVOIE , Marie-Julie-Judith SIMARD

Maternal grandparents: Claude-Joseph GUIMOND , Agnes-Anne-Elisabeth FORTIN

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Jean married Genevieve BOUILLON 13 February 1827 in Rimouski, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Genevieve BOUILLON was born 23 September 1809 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Genevieve was the child of Jean Baptiste BOUILLON and Agnes COTE.

Jean LAVOIE died 11 December 1886 in Pointe-au-Père, Canada.
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Genevieve BOUILLON
Marriage date: 13 February 1827
Marriage place: Rimouski, Lower Canada

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Genevieve BOUILLON was the child of Jean Baptiste BOUILLON and Agnes COTE

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Agnes LAVOIE

Born: 23 July 1855, Matane, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Jean Baptiste "John" FRANCOEUR 24 April 1877 Place: Sainte-Luce, Québec, Canada (Ste-Luce) (Sainte-Luce-sur-Mer)

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Birth — 1802
6 December 1802
Rimouski, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Jean LAVOIE and Genevieve BOUILLON 13 February 1827, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

He was 24 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.

1855 Birth of Child
Agnes LAVOIE was born 23 July 1855, Matane, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane)

Jean was 52 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 Marriage of Child
Agnes LAVOIE married 24 April 1877, Sainte-Luce, Québec, Canada (Ste-Luce) (Sainte-Luce-sur-Mer) to Jean Baptiste "John" FRANCOEUR

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)