Geneviève CARON

(b. 15 January 1786 , L'Islet, Province of Québec, Canada d. 28 December 1876 , Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )

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Geneviève CARON was born 15 January 1786 in L'Islet, Province of Québec, Canada

Geneviève CARON was the child of Pierre CARON and Francoise-Charlotte CARON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-Francois CARON and Marthe COUILLARD (maternal) Alexis CARON and Françoise FORTIN

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Geneviève married Francois-Gabriel GUIMOND 25 January 1814 in L'Islet, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Francois-Gabriel GUIMOND was born 23 September 1792 in Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola). Francois-Gabriel died 4 January 1851 in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada. Francois-Gabriel was the child of Francois-Xavier GUIMOND and Marguerite BERNIER.

Geneviève CARON died 28 December 1876 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, 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.

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Geneviève CARON married

Francois-Gabriel GUIMOND-- Date: 25 January 1814 Place: L'Islet, Lower Canada
Francois-Gabriel GUIMOND was the child of Francois-Xavier GUIMOND and Marguerite BERNIER

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Children of Francois-Gabriel GUIMOND and Geneviève CARON:

Stanislas-Martin GUIMOND (b.abt. 1827, , Québec Province, Canada d. 24 September 1908, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )
m. Henriette PLOURDE 6 February 1849 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

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1786 Birth
15 January 1786
L'Islet, 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)

1814 Marriage / Partner
Geneviève CARON and Francois-Gabriel GUIMOND 25 January 1814, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

She was 28 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)

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)

1849 Marriage of Child
Stanislas-Martin GUIMOND married 6 February 1849, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice) to Henriette PLOURDE

1851 Death of Spouse/Partner
Francois-Gabriel GUIMOND died 4 January 1851, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

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.