Marie-Helene BOUCHARD

Born

8 January 1810 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Died

30 January 1901 , St-Épiphane, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada

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Nicolas BOUCHARD Angélique DUBE

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Born: 8 January 1810 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Father: Nicolas BOUCHARD

Mother: Angélique DUBE

Paternal grandparents: Nicolas-Christophe BOUCHARD , Marie-Anne MICHAUD

Maternal grandparents: Zacharie DUBE , Marie-Catherine LEVESQUE

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Marie-Helene married Pierre GAGNON 17 November 1829 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Pierre GAGNON was born 23 October 1805 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Pierre died 3 December 1867 in St-Épiphane, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada. Pierre was the child of Henri GAGNON and Madeleine LEVESQUE.

Marie-Helene BOUCHARD died 30 January 1901 in St-Épiphane, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada.
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Marie-Helene BOUCHARD married

Pierre GAGNON
Marriage date: 17 November 1829
Marriage place: Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada
Pierre GAGNON was the child of Henri GAGNON and Madeleine LEVESQUE

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Children of Pierre GAGNON and Marie-Helene BOUCHARD

Obeline-Evelyne GAGNON

Born: abt. 1840, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 11 June 1894, St-Épiphane, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada

Married: Lazare LEBEL 7 June 1862

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Birth — 1810
8 January 1810
Rivière-Ouelle, 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)

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Marie-Helene BOUCHARD and Pierre GAGNON 17 November 1829, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

She was 19 years old.

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)

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.