Joseph-Felix TETU

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7 September 1810 , Montmagny, Lower Canada

Died

5 April 1886 , Montmagny, Québec, Canada

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Joseph TETU Therese POIRIER

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Born: 7 September 1810 in Montmagny, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph TETU

Mother: Therese POIRIER

Paternal grandparents: Felix TETU , Madeleine VALLEE

Maternal grandparents: Pierre POIRIER , Elisabeth COUTURE dite BELLERIVE

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Joseph-Felix married Marie-Delphine NICOLE 5 July 1841 in Montmagny, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Delphine NICOLE was born 3 March 1822 in Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire). Marie-Delphine died 3 July 1896 in Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire).

Joseph-Felix TETU died 5 April 1886 in Montmagny, Québec, Canada .
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Joseph-Felix TETU married

Marie-Delphine NICOLE
Marriage date: 5 July 1841
Marriage place: Montmagny, Canada East

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Children of Joseph-Felix TETU and Marie-Delphine NICOLE

Hermine TETU

Born: 4 November 1836, Montmagny, Lower Canada
Died: 19 October 1882, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada

Married: Thomas NICOLE 7 July 1856 Place: Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire)

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Birth — 1810
7 September 1810
Montmagny, 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)

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

1836 Birth of Child
Hermine TETU was born 4 November 1836, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire)

Joseph-Felix was 26 years old.

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 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-Felix TETU and Marie-Delphine NICOLE 5 July 1841, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire)

He was 30 years old.

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.

1856 Marriage of Child
Hermine TETU married 7 July 1856, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire) to Thomas NICOLE

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.

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.

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)

1882 Death of Child
Hermine TETU died 19 October 1882, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

Joseph-Felix was 72 years old.

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)

Death — 1886
5 April 1886
Montmagny, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 75.

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