Michel Prosper "Georges" TANGUAY

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17 October 1834 , Québec, Lower Canada

Died

28 September 1886 , Québec, Québec, Canada

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Andre TANGUAY Therese BUSSIERE

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Born: 17 October 1834 in Québec, Lower Canada

Father: Andre TANGUAY

Mother: Therese BUSSIERE

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste TANGUAY , Theotiste MORIN

Maternal grandparents: Charles BUSSIERE , Marie-Anne BACON

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

Michel Prosper "Georges" married Adeline MATHIEU 6 August 1855 in Québec, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adeline MATHIEU was born abt. 1836 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Adeline died 12 June 1871 in Saint-Sauveur, Québec, Canada. Adeline was the child of Charles MATHIEU and Marie LABBE.

Michel Prosper "Georges" TANGUAY died 28 September 1886 in Québec, Québec, Canada .
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Recorded occupation: Boucher

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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Spouse & Children of Michel Prosper "Georges" TANGUAY

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Michel Prosper "Georges" TANGUAY married

Adeline MATHIEU
Marriage date: 6 August 1855
Marriage place: Québec, Canada East
Adeline MATHIEU was the child of Charles MATHIEU and Marie LABBE

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Children of Michel Prosper "Georges" TANGUAY and Adeline MATHIEU

Cedulie TANGUAY

Born: 29 September 1863, Québec, Canada East
Died: 25 January 1945, Québec, Québec, Canada

Married: Philippe TREMBLAY 28 July 1855 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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Birth — 1834
17 October 1834
Québec, 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)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Michel Prosper "Georges" TANGUAY and Adeline MATHIEU 6 August 1855, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

He was 20 years old.

1855 Marriage of Child
Cedulie TANGUAY married 28 July 1855, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Philippe TREMBLAY

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

1863 Birth of Child
Cedulie TANGUAY was born 29 September 1863, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Michel Prosper "Georges" was 28 years old.

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.