Marie-Julie BOURQUE

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23 May 1840 , Sherbrooke, Lower Canada

Died

5 August 1892 , Stoke-Center, Richmond, Quebec, Canada

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Born: 23 May 1840 in Sherbrooke, Lower Canada

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Marie-Julie married Jean-Jacques GUILLEMETTE 9 April 1855 in Sherbrooke, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Jacques GUILLEMETTE was born 28 January 1832 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais). Jean-Jacques died 31 October 1927 in Stoke-Center, Richmond, Quebec, Canada.

Marie-Julie BOURQUE died 5 August 1892 in Stoke-Center, Richmond, Quebec, 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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Marie-Julie BOURQUE married

Jean-Jacques GUILLEMETTE
Marriage date: 9 April 1855
Marriage place: Sherbrooke, Canada East

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Jacab-Jacques GUILLEMETTE

Born: 23 October 1863, Sherbrooke, Canada East
Died: 24 July 1942, Bonfield, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada

Married: Sophranie BRUNEAU 1884

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Birth — 1840
23 May 1840
Sherbrooke, Lower Canada

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.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Julie BOURQUE and Jean-Jacques GUILLEMETTE 9 April 1855, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

She was 14 years old.

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

1863 Birth of Child
Jacab-Jacques GUILLEMETTE was born 23 October 1863, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Marie-Julie was 23 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.