Jacob-Louis FORCADE

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23 December 1821 , Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

Died

14 June 1879 , La Baie, Québec, Canada

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Joseph-Ange FORCADE Theotiste DESROCHERS dite HOUDE

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Born: 23 December 1821 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph-Ange FORCADE

Mother: Theotiste DESROCHERS dite HOUDE

Paternal grandparents: Jean Baptiste FORCADE DE RITTBERG , Francoise DUPERRON

Maternal grandparents: Joseph HOUDE dit DESROCHERS , Veronique HOUDE

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Jacob-Louis married Eleonore GAUDREAU 20 January 1846 in La Baie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Eleonore GAUDREAU was born 19 June 1826 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Eleonore died 29 July 1916 in La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori). Eleonore was the child of Isidore GAUDREAU and Louise SAVARD.

Jacob-Louis FORCADE died 14 June 1879 in La Baie, 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
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Jacob-Louis FORCADE married

Eleonore GAUDREAU
Marriage date: 20 January 1846
Marriage place: La Baie, Canada East
Eleonore GAUDREAU was the child of Isidore GAUDREAU and Louise SAVARD

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Rose-Delima FORCADE

Born: abt. 1849, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 18 December 1929, Iroquois Falls, Ontario, Canada

Married: Jean TREMBLAY 16 February 1874 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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Birth — 1821
23 December 1821
Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

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

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)

1846 Marriage / Partner
Jacob-Louis FORCADE and Eleonore GAUDREAU 20 January 1846, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

He was 24 years old.

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.

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

1874 Marriage of Child
Rose-Delima FORCADE married 16 February 1874, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Jean TREMBLAY

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