Jean-Baptiste ARSENAULT

Born

11 May 1786 , Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

10 September 1879 , Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada

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Charles ARSENAULT Nathalie LEBLANC

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Born: 11 May 1786 in Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Charles ARSENAULT

Mother: Nathalie LEBLANC

Paternal grandparents: Charles ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU) , Cécile BREAULT (BRAULT)

Maternal grandparents: Paul LEBLANC , Marie Josephte RICHARD

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Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Louise LEROUX 15 February 1808 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Louise LEROUX was born abt. 1782 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Louise died 20 March 1870 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Marie-Louise was the child of Pierre LEROUX and Marie-Agathe SALOIS.

Jean-Baptiste ARSENAULT died 10 September 1879 in Saint-Ours, 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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Jean-Baptiste ARSENAULT married

Marie-Louise LEROUX
Marriage date: 15 February 1808
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Marie-Louise LEROUX was the child of Pierre LEROUX and Marie-Agathe SALOIS

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Children of Jean-Baptiste ARSENAULT and Marie-Louise LEROUX

Octave ARSENAULT

Born: 17 November 1818, Sorel, Lower Canada
Died: 24 September 1876, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada

Married: Sophie CHAPDELAINE 2 February 1841 Place: Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

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Birth — 1786
11 May 1786
Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1808 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste ARSENAULT and Marie-Louise LEROUX 15 February 1808, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 21 years old.

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.

1818 Birth of Child
Octave ARSENAULT was born 17 November 1818, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Jean-Baptiste was 32 years old.

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 - 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 of Child
Octave ARSENAULT married 2 February 1841, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception) to Sophie CHAPDELAINE

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.

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.