François LEVAC

(b. 27 February 1789 , Les Cèdres, Province of Québec, Canada d. 27 July 1876 , Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada )

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François LEVAC was born 27 February 1789 in Les Cèdres, Province of Québec, Canada

François LEVAC was the child of Noel LEVAC and Catherine BÉRIAU (BERIAULT) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Martin LEVAC and Josephte RHÉAUME (maternal) François-Maurice BÉRIAU (BERIAULT) dit POITEVIN and Marie-Anne LALONDE

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

François married Maire-Anne CITOLEUX 21 February 1814 in Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Maire-Anne CITOLEUX was born 23 October 1793 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Maire-Anne died 14 June 1875 in Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac). Maire-Anne was the child of Charles CITOLEUX and Francoise SABOURIN.

François LEVAC died 27 July 1876 in Coteau-du-Lac, 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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Family and Children of François LEVAC

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François LEVAC married

Maire-Anne CITOLEUX-- Date: 21 February 1814 Place: Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Lower Canada
Maire-Anne CITOLEUX was the child of Charles CITOLEUX and Francoise SABOURIN

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Children of François LEVAC and Maire-Anne CITOLEUX:

Charles LEVAC (b.16 November 1817, Les Cèdres, Lower Canada d. 22 March 1898, St-Raphael, Glengarry, Ontario, Canada)
m. Catherine SAUVÉ 19 April 1842 in Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac)

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1789 Birth
27 February 1789
Les Cèdres, 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)

1814 Marriage / Partner
François LEVAC and Maire-Anne CITOLEUX 21 February 1814, Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire)

He was 24 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Charles LEVAC was born 16 November 1817, Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres)

François was 28 years old.

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

1842 Marriage of Child
Charles LEVAC married 19 April 1842, Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac) to Catherine SAUVÉ

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.