Marie-Flore GODIN

(b. 16 January 1818 , Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada* d. 8 September 1868 , Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada* )

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Marie-Flore GODIN was born 16 January 1818 in Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada*

Marie-Flore GODIN was the child of ? and ?

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Marie-Flore married Francois-Xavier GUAY abt. 1845 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Francois-Xavier GUAY was born 14 September 1825 in Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada* (Tonnancour) (La Visitation-de-la-Pointe-du-Lac). Francois-Xavier died 20 April 1907 in Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada* (Tonnancour) (La Visitation-de-la-Pointe-du-Lac).

Marie-Flore GODIN died 8 September 1868 in Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, 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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Marie-Flore GODIN married

Francois-Xavier GUAY-- Date: abt. 1845 Place: , Québec Province, Canada

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Children of Francois-Xavier GUAY and Marie-Flore GODIN:

Moise GUAY (b.2 October 1853, Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Canada East* d. 31 May 1941, Espanola, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada)
m. Corrine-Laurina MOORE 1 June 1879

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1818 Birth
16 January 1818
Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, 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.

1853 Birth of Child
Moise GUAY was born 2 October 1853, Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada* (Tonnancour) (La Visitation-de-la-Pointe-du-Lac)

Marie-Flore was 35 years old.

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.