Jacob CHOUINARD

(b. 25 January 1803 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. February 1886 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada )

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Jacob CHOUINARD was born 25 January 1803 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Jacob CHOUINARD was the child of Jacques CHOUINARD and Francoise DUCROS dite LATERREUR and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre CHOUINARD and Madeleine MORIN (maternal) Nicolas-Antoine DUCROS dit LATERREUR and Marie-Josephte FORTIN

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

Jacob married Lucie LECLERC 23 November 1824 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Lucie LECLERC was born 13 December 1808 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada. Lucie died 22 April 1881 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada. Lucie was the child of Jean-Baptiste LECLERC dit FRANCOEUR and Marthe TALBOT dite GERVAIS.

Jacob CHOUINARD died February 1886 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, 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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Jacob CHOUINARD married

Lucie LECLERC-- Date: 23 November 1824 Place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada
Lucie LECLERC was the child of Jean-Baptiste LECLERC dit FRANCOEUR and Marthe TALBOT dite GERVAIS

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Children of Jacob CHOUINARD and Lucie LECLERC:

Marguerite CHOUINARD (b.8 February 1832, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. 13 July 1905, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada)
m. Jacob CHOUINARD 7 November 1848 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

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1803 Birth
25 January 1803
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, 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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Jacob CHOUINARD and Lucie LECLERC 23 November 1824, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

He was 21 years old.

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

1832 Birth of Child
Marguerite CHOUINARD was born 8 February 1832, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

Jacob was 29 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

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
Marguerite CHOUINARD married 7 November 1848, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada to Jacob CHOUINARD

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.