Ambroise DUMAS

Born

18 February 1781 , Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

14 March 1868 , L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada

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Alexis DUMAS Marguerite-Francoise AUDET dite LAPOINTE

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Born: 18 February 1781 in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Alexis DUMAS

Mother: Marguerite-Francoise AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Paternal grandparents: Charles DUMAS , Ursule GODIN

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Francois AUDET dit LAPOINTE , Genevieve LECLERC

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Ambroise married Madeleine AUDET dite LAPOINTE 29 January 1812 in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Madeleine AUDET dite LAPOINTE was born 18 June 1790 in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada. Madeleine died 19 October 1859 in L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte). Madeleine was the child of Laurent AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Madeleine GOSSELIN.

Ambroise DUMAS died 14 March 1868 in L'Isle-Verte, 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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Ambroise DUMAS married

Madeleine AUDET dite LAPOINTE
Marriage date: 29 January 1812
Marriage place: Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada
Madeleine AUDET dite LAPOINTE was the child of Laurent AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Madeleine GOSSELIN

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Children of Ambroise DUMAS and Madeleine AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Marie-Domithilde DUMAS

Born: 25 November 1826, L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada
Died: 2 January 1915, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Married: Wencelas-Ovide TREMBLAY 17 September 1860 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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Birth — 1781
18 February 1781
Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Province of Québec, Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

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)

1812 Marriage / Partner
Ambroise DUMAS and Madeleine AUDET dite LAPOINTE 29 January 1812, Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

He was 30 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)

1826 Birth of Child
Marie-Domithilde DUMAS was born 25 November 1826, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

Ambroise was 45 years old.

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)

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

1859 Death of Spouse/Partner
Madeleine AUDET dite LAPOINTE died 19 October 1859, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

1860 Marriage of Child
Marie-Domithilde DUMAS married 17 September 1860, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Wencelas-Ovide TREMBLAY

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.