Esther POIRIER

Born

6 March 1819 , Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada

Died

17 April 1895 , Saint-Henri, Montréal, Québec, Canada*

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Louis POIRIER Marie-Anne BOISSY

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Born: 6 March 1819 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada

Father: Louis POIRIER

Mother: Marie-Anne BOISSY

Paternal grandparents: Louis POIRIER , Marie-Anne-Brigitte GIPOULOU dite LAFLEUR

Maternal grandparents: Nicolas BOISSY , Charlotte GODU

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Esther married Hubert HARNOIS 1 August 1837 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Hubert HARNOIS was born 29 February 1808 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Hubert died 27 December 1888 in Saint-Henri, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (Tannery West). Hubert was the child of Joseph-Louis HARNOIS and Judith TETREAULT.

Esther POIRIER died 17 April 1895 in Saint-Henri, Montréal, 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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Esther POIRIER married

Hubert HARNOIS
Marriage date: 1 August 1837
Marriage place: Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada
Hubert HARNOIS was the child of Joseph-Louis HARNOIS and Judith TETREAULT

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Children of Hubert HARNOIS and Esther POIRIER

Louise HARNOIS

Born: 1 April 1857, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Gilbert TREMBLAY 13 October 1874 Place: Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire)

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Birth — 1819
6 March 1819
Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada

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

1837 Marriage / Partner
Esther POIRIER and Hubert HARNOIS 1 August 1837, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada (Saint-Hilaire)

She was 18 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 - 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.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1857 Birth of Child
Louise HARNOIS was born 1 April 1857, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Esther was 38 years old.

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

1874 Marriage of Child
Louise HARNOIS married 13 October 1874, Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire) to Gilbert TREMBLAY

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.