Marie-Josephe LECLERC

Born

11 June 1815 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

31 August 1896 , Les Escoumins, Saguenay, Québec, Canada

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Alexandre LECLERC Madeleine GONTHIER

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Born: 11 June 1815 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Father: Alexandre LECLERC

Mother: Madeleine GONTHIER

Paternal grandparents: Basile LECLERC , Josephte ST-PIERRE

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Marc GONTHIER , Madeleine GAGNE

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Marie-Josephe married Eloi BOUCHARD 25 May 1834 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Eloi BOUCHARD was born 9 August 1813 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Eloi died 25 December 1895 in Les Escoumins, Saguenay, Québec, Canada. Eloi was the child of Didace-Martin BOUCHARD and Madeleine PERRON.

Marie-Josephe LECLERC died 31 August 1896 in Les Escoumins, Saguenay, 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
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Marie-Josephe LECLERC married

Eloi BOUCHARD
Marriage date: 25 May 1834
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Eloi BOUCHARD was the child of Didace-Martin BOUCHARD and Madeleine PERRON

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Emerentienne (Emerance) BOUCHARD

Born: 17 December 1837, Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Calixte SAVARD 21 October 1856 Place: Matane, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane)

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Birth — 1815
11 June 1815
La Malbaie, 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

1834 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Josephe LECLERC and Eloi BOUCHARD 25 May 1834, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 18 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

1837 Birth of Child
Emerentienne (Emerance) BOUCHARD was born 17 December 1837, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

Marie-Josephe was 22 years old.

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.

1856 Marriage of Child
Emerentienne (Emerance) BOUCHARD married 21 October 1856, Matane, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane) to Calixte SAVARD

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.