Jean-Chrisostôme GOYETTE

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17 March 1835 , Rigaud, Lower Canada

Died

15 March 1875 , East Hawkesbury, Prescott, Ontario, Canada

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Born: 17 March 1835 in Rigaud, Lower Canada

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Jean-Chrisostôme married Philomene VACHON 22 October 1866 in Rigaud, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Philomene VACHON was born 12 September 1843 in Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud). Philomene died 2 May 1928 in Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues, Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.

Jean-Chrisostôme GOYETTE died 15 March 1875 in East Hawkesbury, Prescott, Ontario, Canada.
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Jean-Chrisostôme GOYETTE married

Philomene VACHON
Marriage date: 22 October 1866
Marriage place: Rigaud, Canada East

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Mathilda GOYETTE

Born: January 15, 1868, Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues,Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada
Died: August 2, 1938, La Salle, Manitoba, Canada

Married: Edouard LAFOND 20 March 1891

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Birth — 1835
17 March 1835
Rigaud, 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 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Chrisostôme GOYETTE and Philomene VACHON 22 October 1866, Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud)

He was 31 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.

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.

1868 Birth of Child
Mathilda GOYETTE was born January 15, 1868, Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues,Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Chrisostôme was 32 years old.

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