Francois-Xavier GAUDETTE

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29 November 1819 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Died

31 August 1898 , Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada

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Francois-Xavier GAUDET Marie-Marguerite BEAUNOYER HILAIRE dite FRAPPIER

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Born: 29 November 1819 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Father: Francois-Xavier GAUDET

Mother: Marie-Marguerite BEAUNOYER HILAIRE dite FRAPPIER

Paternal grandparents: Francois-Xavier GAUDET , Marie-Anne MEUNIER dite LAPIERRE

Maternal grandparents: Louis BEAUNOYER dit FRAPPIER , Angélique HOUDE (HOULE)

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Francois-Xavier married Elisabeth Isabelle LARONDE abt. 1848 in Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elisabeth Isabelle LARONDE was born abt. 1827 in Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada. Elisabeth Isabelle died 11 October 1878 in Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada. Elisabeth Isabelle was the child of Toussaint Antoine Denys LARONDE and Marie-Therese KEKJICAOIKE.

Francois-Xavier GAUDETTE died 31 August 1898 in Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada.
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1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Francois-Xavier GAUDETTE married

Elisabeth Isabelle LARONDE
Marriage date: abt. 1848
Marriage place: Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Canada East
Elisabeth Isabelle LARONDE was the child of Toussaint Antoine Denys LARONDE and Marie-Therese KEKJICAOIKE

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Andre GAUDETTE

Born: 18 January 1861, Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Canada East
Died: 24 January 1937, Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

Married: Mary-Louise COUGHLIN 26 August 1884 Place: Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island)

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Birth — 1819
29 November 1819
Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

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)

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

1861 Birth of Child
Andre GAUDETTE was born 18 January 1861, Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island)

Francois-Xavier was 41 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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 Death of Spouse/Partner
Elisabeth Isabelle LARONDE died 11 October 1878, Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1884 Marriage of Child
Andre GAUDETTE married 26 August 1884, Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island) to Mary-Louise COUGHLIN

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

Death — 1898
31 August 1898
Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada
He died at the age of 78.

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