Pierre DONALDSON

Born

30 August 1806 , Québec, Lower Canada

Died

21 January 1890 , Québec, Québec, Canada

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Pierre-Guillaume DONALDSON Madeleine GAUVREAU

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Born: 30 August 1806 in Québec, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre-Guillaume DONALDSON

Mother: Madeleine GAUVREAU

Paternal grandparents: Daniel WILLIAMSON , Marguerite ROY dite AUDY

Maternal grandparents: Etienne-Francois GAUVREAU , Marguerite PARENT

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Pierre married Adele NERON 26 October 1847 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adele NERON was born 30 July 1827 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Adele died 15 October 1915 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Adele was the child of Joseph-Marie-Gabriel NERON and Marie-Julienne ALLARD.

Pierre DONALDSON died 21 January 1890 in Québec, 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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Adele NERON
Marriage date: 26 October 1847
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Adele NERON was the child of Joseph-Marie-Gabriel NERON and Marie-Julienne ALLARD

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Celanire DONALDSON

Born: 5 May 1863, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Joseph-Arthur TREMBLAY 25 August 1886 Place: Roberval, Québec, Canada (Lac-Saint-Jean)

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Birth — 1806
30 August 1806
Québec, 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)

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

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1847 Marriage / Partner
Pierre DONALDSON and Adele NERON 26 October 1847, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 41 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

1863 Birth of Child
Celanire DONALDSON was born 5 May 1863, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Pierre was 56 years old.

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.