Apolline RUEST (RUAIS)

Born

7 March 1788 , Rimouski, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

7 April 1868 , St-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Canada

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Jean RUEST (RUAIS)Rosalie GAGNON

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Born: 7 March 1788 in Rimouski, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Jean RUEST (RUAIS)

Mother: Rosalie GAGNON

Paternal grandparents: Antoine RUEST (RUAIS) , Marie-Madeleine DESROSIERS dite DUTREMBLE

Maternal grandparents: Jacques GAGNON , Madeleine PINEL dite LAFRANCE

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Apolline married Joseph-Sebastien POIRIER dit MICHAUD 17 February 1806 in Rimouski, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph-Sebastien POIRIER dit MICHAUD was born 21 February 1784 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Joseph-Sebastien died 2 January 1864 in St-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Canada. Joseph-Sebastien was the child of Sebastien "Bastien" POIRIER and Marie Anne PETIT dite LE VENT.

Apolline RUEST (RUAIS) died 7 April 1868 in St-Anaclet-de-Lessard, 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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Joseph-Sebastien POIRIER dit MICHAUD
Marriage date: 17 February 1806
Marriage place: Rimouski, Lower Canada
Joseph-Sebastien POIRIER dit MICHAUD was the child of Sebastien "Bastien" POIRIER and Marie Anne PETIT dite LE VENT

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Lazare-Alexandre POIRIER dit MICHAUD

Born: 6 September 1810, Rimouski, Lower Canada
Died: 20 May 1863, St-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Canada

Married: Euphemie LEPAGE 3 February 1835 Place: Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

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Birth — 1788
7 March 1788
Rimouski, 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)

1806 Marriage / Partner
Apolline RUEST (RUAIS) and Joseph-Sebastien POIRIER dit MICHAUD 17 February 1806, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

She was 17 years old.

1810 Birth of Child
Lazare-Alexandre POIRIER dit MICHAUD was born 6 September 1810, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Apolline was 22 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

1835 Marriage of Child
Lazare-Alexandre POIRIER dit MICHAUD married 3 February 1835, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic) to Euphemie LEPAGE

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

1863 Death of Child
Lazare-Alexandre POIRIER dit MICHAUD died 20 May 1863, St-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Canada

Apolline was 75 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1864 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph-Sebastien POIRIER dit MICHAUD died 2 January 1864, St-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Canada

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.