Abel-Jean DUFOUR

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20 October 1826 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

18 June 1875 , Québec, Québec, Canada

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Born: 20 October 1826 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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Abel-Jean married Louise JEAN 18 February 1862 in La Malbaie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Louise JEAN was born 12 September 1835 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements).

Abel-Jean DUFOUR died 18 June 1875 in Québec, 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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Abel-Jean DUFOUR married

Louise JEAN
Marriage date: 18 February 1862
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Canada East

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Children of Abel-Jean DUFOUR and Louise JEAN

Marie DUFOUR

Born: 1 March 1859, Montréal, Canada East
Died: 23 August 1896, Louiseville, Québec, Canada

Married: Napoleon CROTEAU 4 December 1879

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Birth — 1826
20 October 1826
La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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

1859 Birth of Child
Marie DUFOUR was born 1 March 1859, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Abel-Jean was 32 years old.

1862 Marriage / Partner
Abel-Jean DUFOUR and Louise JEAN 18 February 1862, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 35 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.