Olive ROUSSEAU

Born

23 October 1801 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

12 June 1872 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

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Laurent ROUSSEAU Marie SIMARD

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Born: 23 October 1801 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Laurent ROUSSEAU

Mother: Marie SIMARD

Paternal grandparents: Jacques ROUSSEAU , Marie-Veronique BUSSIERE

Maternal grandparents: François SIMARD , Marie-Charlotte TREMBLAY

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Olive married Eloi BOILY 22 November 1825 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Eloi BOILY was born 9 October 1798 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Eloi died 30 May 1875 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Eloi was the child of Joseph BOILY and Marguerite SIMARD.

Olive ROUSSEAU died 12 June 1872 in Baie-Saint-Paul, 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
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Olive ROUSSEAU married

Eloi BOILY
Marriage date: 22 November 1825
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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Eloi BOILY was the child of Joseph BOILY and Marguerite SIMARD

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Children of Eloi BOILY and Olive ROUSSEAU

Eloi-Roger-Ovide BOILY

Born: 15 December 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: 12 June 1906, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie-Josephte SIMARD 2 August 1853 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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Birth — 1801
23 October 1801
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Olive ROUSSEAU and Eloi BOILY 22 November 1825, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 24 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Eloi-Roger-Ovide BOILY was born 15 December 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Olive was 26 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.

1853 Marriage of Child
Eloi-Roger-Ovide BOILY married 2 August 1853, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Marie-Josephte SIMARD

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.