Marie-Flore DEMERS

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10 August 1835 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Died

7 May 1870 , Beauceville, Québec, Canada

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Born: 10 August 1835 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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Marie-Flore married Jean-Baptiste VEILLEUX 23 July 1861 in Sainte-Hénédine, La Nouvelle-Beauce, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste VEILLEUX was born 27 October 1827 in Beauceville, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Beauce). Jean-Baptiste died 11 July 1909 in Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley, Beauce, Québec, Canada.

Marie-Flore DEMERS died 7 May 1870 in Beauceville, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Marie-Flore DEMERS married

Jean-Baptiste VEILLEUX
Marriage date: 23 July 1861
Marriage place: Sainte-Hénédine, La Nouvelle-Beauce, Quebec, Canada

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Esdras Caliste VEILLEUX

Born: 10 September 1862, Saint Henedine, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada
Died: 4 March 1927, Waterville, Maine, USA

Married: Marie-Georgiana CHEVAGNEL 25 October 1887 Place: Beauceville, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Beauce)

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Birth — 1835
10 August 1835
Sainte-Marie, 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

1861 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Flore DEMERS and Jean-Baptiste VEILLEUX 23 July 1861, Sainte-Hénédine, La Nouvelle-Beauce, Quebec, Canada

She was 25 years old.

1862 Birth of Child
Esdras Caliste VEILLEUX was born 10 September 1862, Saint Henedine, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada

Marie-Flore was 27 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.