Luce DRAPEAU

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26 July 1832 , Rimouski, Lower Canada

Died

2 June 1889 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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Charles DRAPEAU Celeste PARENT

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Born: 26 July 1832 in Rimouski, Lower Canada

Father: Charles DRAPEAU

Mother: Celeste PARENT

Paternal grandparents: Pierre DRAPEAU , Geneviève LANGLOIS

Maternal grandparents: Jacques PARENT , Marie-Desiree RUEST (RUAIS)

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Luce married Nicolas BOUCHARD 14 May 1849 in Rimouski, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Nicolas BOUCHARD was born 10 November 1804 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Nicolas died 3 January 1858 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Nicolas was the child of Nicolas BOUCHARD and Angélique DUBE.

Luce DRAPEAU died 2 June 1889 in Saint-Hyacinthe, 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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Luce DRAPEAU married

Nicolas BOUCHARD
Marriage date: 14 May 1849
Marriage place: Rimouski, Canada East
Nicolas BOUCHARD was the child of Nicolas BOUCHARD and Angélique DUBE

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Children of Nicolas BOUCHARD and Luce DRAPEAU

Marie Flore BOUCHARD

Born: 5 November 1850, Rimouski, Canada East
Died: 9 August 1891, Salem, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Epiphane TREMBLAY 21 October 1869 Place: Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

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Birth — 1832
26 July 1832
Rimouski, Lower Canada

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 / Partner
Luce DRAPEAU and Nicolas BOUCHARD 14 May 1849, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

She was 16 years old.

1850 Birth of Child
Marie Flore BOUCHARD was born 5 November 1850, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Luce was 18 years old.

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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Nicolas BOUCHARD died 3 January 1858, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 Marriage of Child
Marie Flore BOUCHARD married 21 October 1869, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic) to Epiphane TREMBLAY

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

Death — 1889
2 June 1889
Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 56.

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