Jacques BUTEAU

Born

5 July 1816 , Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Died

27 November 1870 , St-Anselme-de-Lauzon, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada

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Jacques BUTEAU Marie-Angelique FORTIER

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Born: 5 July 1816 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Father: Jacques BUTEAU

Mother: Marie-Angelique FORTIER

Paternal grandparents: Jacques BUTEAU , Marguerite CHABOT

Maternal grandparents: Felix FORTIER , Catherine LETOURNEAU

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Jacques married Hermine PLANTE 12 January 1836 in St-Anselme, Dorchester, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Hermine PLANTE was born 27 January 1818 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais). Hermine died 15 August 1882 in St-Anselme-de-Lauzon, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada. Hermine was the child of Louis PLANTE and Marie-Anne RUEL.

Jacques BUTEAU died 27 November 1870 in St-Anselme-de-Lauzon, Dorchester, Quebec, 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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Hermine PLANTE
Marriage date: 12 January 1836
Marriage place: St-Anselme, Dorchester, Québec, Canada

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Hermine PLANTE was the child of Louis PLANTE and Marie-Anne RUEL

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Children of Jacques BUTEAU and Hermine PLANTE

Philomene BUTEAU

Born: 8 June 1840, St-Anselme-de-Lauzon, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada
Died: 16 June 1914, Lewiston, Maine, USA

Married: Francois TREMBLAY 27 February 1865

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Birth — 1816
5 July 1816
Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, 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

1836 Marriage / Partner
Jacques BUTEAU and Hermine PLANTE 12 January 1836, St-Anselme, Dorchester, Québec, Canada

He was 19 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)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Birth of Child
Philomene BUTEAU was born 8 June 1840, St-Anselme-de-Lauzon, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada

Jacques was 23 years old.

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

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.