Jean GILBERT

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16 January 1831 , Beauceville, Lower Canada

Died

9 February 1876 , Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada

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Born: 16 January 1831 in Beauceville, Lower Canada

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Jean married Appolline LESSARD 16 November 1858 in Beauceville, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Appolline LESSARD was born 28 February 1841 in Beauceville, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Beauce).

Jean GILBERT died 9 February 1876 in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Appolline LESSARD
Marriage date: 16 November 1858
Marriage place: Beauceville, Canada East

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Children of Jean GILBERT and Appolline LESSARD

Napoleon GILBERT

Born: 15 September 1866, Beauceville, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Clara VACHON 19 August 1889

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Birth — 1831
16 January 1831
Beauceville, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Jean GILBERT and Appolline LESSARD 16 November 1858, Beauceville, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Beauce)

He was 27 years old.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
Napoleon GILBERT was born 15 September 1866, Beauceville, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Beauce)

Jean was 35 years old.

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.