Louis ST LAURENT

Born

4 January 1812 , Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

Died

29 March 1888 , Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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Joseph ST LAURENT Angelique HOUDE

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Born: 4 January 1812 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph ST LAURENT

Mother: Angelique HOUDE

Paternal grandparents: Jacques-Francois ST LAURENT , Marie-Francoise LAMPRON dite DESFOSSÉS

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste HOUDE , Marie-Josephe BIRON

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Louis married Marie-Josette PARENT 22 June 1835 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Josette PARENT was born 18 July 1814 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marie-Josette died 5 September 1893 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Marie-Josette was the child of Joseph PARENT and Marie-Reine CREPEAU.

Louis ST LAURENT died 29 March 1888 in Sherbrooke, 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
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1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Louis ST LAURENT married

Marie-Josette PARENT
Marriage date: 22 June 1835
Marriage place: Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada
Marie-Josette PARENT was the child of Joseph PARENT and Marie-Reine CREPEAU

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Children of Louis ST LAURENT and Marie-Josette PARENT

Jean-Baptiste-Moise ST LAURENT

Born: 18 September 1839, Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada
Died: 9 July 1915, Compton, Québec, Canada

Married: Mary Anne BRODERICK 27 April 1881 Place: Compton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas-de-Compton)

Felix-Alexandre ST LAURENT

Born: 24 October 1853, Trois-Rivières, Canada East
Died: 17 March 1919, Sainte-Anne, Manitoba, Canada

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Birth — 1812
4 January 1812
Trois-Rivières, 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)

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Marriage / Partner
Louis ST LAURENT and Marie-Josette PARENT 22 June 1835, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

He was 23 years old.

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)

1839 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste-Moise ST LAURENT was born 18 September 1839, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Louis was 27 years old.

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.

1853 Birth of Child
Felix-Alexandre ST LAURENT was born 24 October 1853, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Louis was 41 years old.

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.

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 - 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)

1881 Marriage of Child
Jean-Baptiste-Moise ST LAURENT married 27 April 1881, Compton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas-de-Compton) to Mary Anne BRODERICK

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)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.