Modeste BONNEAU

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22 February 1793 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

3 January 1871 , Canada

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Julien BONNEAU dit LABÉCASSE Madeleine SIMARD dite LOMBRETTE

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Born: 22 February 1793 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Julien BONNEAU dit LABÉCASSE

Mother: Madeleine SIMARD dite LOMBRETTE

Paternal grandparents: Jacques BONNEAU , Marie-Geneviève FORTIN

Maternal grandparents: François SIMARD , Marguerite GAGNÉ

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Modeste married Henri GRENON 25 November 1817 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Henri GRENON was born 15 January 1793 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Henri died 19 September 1876 in Canada. Henri was the child of Henri GRENON and Therese-Dorothee GUAY.

Modeste BONNEAU died 3 January 1871 in 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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Modeste BONNEAU married

Henri GRENON
Marriage date: 25 November 1817
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Henri GRENON was the child of Henri GRENON and Therese-Dorothee GUAY

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Children of Henri GRENON and Modeste BONNEAU

Adolphe GRENON

Born: 9 November 1819, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Marie SAVARD 12 June 1849 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Marie GRENON

Born: 27 April 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: 10 December 1873, La Baie, Québec, Canada

Married: Jules OUELLET 18 July 1848 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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Birth — 1793
22 February 1793
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Modeste BONNEAU and Henri GRENON 25 November 1817, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 24 years old.

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1819 Birth of Child
Adolphe GRENON was born 9 November 1819, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Modeste was 26 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)

1827 Birth of Child
Marie GRENON was born 27 April 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Modeste was 34 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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Marie GRENON married 18 July 1848, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Jules OUELLET

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 Marriage of Child
Adolphe GRENON married 12 June 1849, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Marie SAVARD

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.