Louis PLANTE

Born

17 March 1787 , Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

1 July 1876 , St-Anselme, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

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Francois PLANTE Francoise DANIAU dite LAPRISE (DANEAU)

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Born: 17 March 1787 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Francois PLANTE

Mother: Francoise DANIAU dite LAPRISE (DANEAU)

Paternal grandparents: Louis PLANTE , Marie-Josephte BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE)

Maternal grandparents: Michel-Philippe DANIAU dit LAPRISE (DANEAU) , Anne-Francoise BOISSONNEAU

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Louis married Marie-Anne RUEL 8 September 1812 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Anne RUEL was born 3 August 1789 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais). Marie-Anne was the child of Jean-Baptiste RUEL and Marie-Barbe ASSELIN.

Louis PLANTE died 1 July 1876 in St-Anselme, Bellechasse, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Marie-Anne RUEL
Marriage date: 8 September 1812
Marriage place: Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

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Marie-Anne RUEL was the child of Jean-Baptiste RUEL and Marie-Barbe ASSELIN

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Children of Louis PLANTE and Marie-Anne RUEL

Hermine PLANTE

Born: 27 January 1818, Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada
Died: 15 August 1882, St-Anselme-de-Lauzon, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada

Married: Jacques BUTEAU 12 January 1836

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Birth — 1787
17 March 1787
Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, 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)

1812 Marriage / Partner
Louis PLANTE and Marie-Anne RUEL 8 September 1812, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada

He was 25 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.

1818 Birth of Child
Hermine PLANTE was born 27 January 1818, Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais)

Louis was 30 years old.

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 - 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

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.