Pierre GOYER

Born

17 June 1816 , Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Lower Canada

Died

26 January 1904 , Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada

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Pierre GOYER Marie-Josephte LEGAULT

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Born: 17 June 1816 in Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre GOYER

Mother: Marie-Josephte LEGAULT

Paternal grandparents: Jacques GOYER dit BELISLE , Marie-Josephe-Dorothee MARCHAND

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste LEGAULT , Geneviève BRUNET

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Pierre married Mathilde VIAU 27 February 1843 in Saint-Martin, Laval, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mathilde VIAU was born 1 December 1824 in Sainte-Rose, Laval, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Rose-de-Lima). Mathilde died 5 February 1900 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada (Valleyfield) (Sainte-Cécile). Mathilde was the child of Augustin VIAU and Marguerite CARDINAL.

Pierre GOYER died 26 January 1904 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, 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.
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Pierre GOYER married

Mathilde VIAU
Marriage date: 27 February 1843
Marriage place: Saint-Martin, Laval, Canada East
Mathilde VIAU was the child of Augustin VIAU and Marguerite CARDINAL

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Children of Pierre GOYER and Mathilde VIAU

Philomene GOYER

Born: 29 October 1847, Saint-Martin, Laval, Canada East
Died: 23 January 1927, Ste-Clotilde, Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada

Married: Daniel LEGAULT 19 July 1864

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Birth — 1816
17 June 1816
Saint-Laurent, Montréal, 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

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)

1843 Marriage / Partner
Pierre GOYER and Mathilde VIAU 27 February 1843, Saint-Martin, Laval, Québec, Canada

He was 26 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1847 Birth of Child
Philomene GOYER was born 29 October 1847, Saint-Martin, Laval, Québec, Canada

Pierre was 31 years old.

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.