Marcel BENOIT

(b. 15 May 1831 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 8 June 1899 , Saint-Louis de Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Marcel BENOIT was born 15 May 1831 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Marcel BENOIT was the child of ? and ?

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Marcel married Marie Celina LAURENT abt. 1853 . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Marie Celina LAURENT was born 15 January 1831 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie Celina died 4 March 1929 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA.

Marcel BENOIT died 8 June 1899 in Saint-Louis de Richelieu, 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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Family and Children of Marcel BENOIT

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Marcel BENOIT married

Marie Celina LAURENT-- Date: abt. 1853 Place:

Children of Marcel BENOIT and Marie Celina LAURENT:

Joseph BENOIT (b.July 1853, Webster, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 November 1901, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )

Marcel Joseph BENOIT (b.7 March 1856, Saint-Aimé, Canada East d. 1 April 1926, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Clarice (Clarisse) Julie (Clara) BOUCHER 2 August 1876 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

Marie BENOIT (b.28 March 1859, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East d. , )

Pierre BENOIT (b.abt. 1863, Saint-Simon, Bagot, Canada East d. , )

Lucie BENOIT (b.14 January 1865, Saint-Aimé, Canada East d. , )

Aime BENOIT (b.15 April 1867, Saint-Aimé, Canada East d. 13 August 1919, Saint-Louis de Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

Catherine-Celina BENOIT (b.10 February 1870, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada d. , )

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1831 Birth
15 May 1831
Sorel, 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.

1853 Birth of Child
Joseph BENOIT was born July 1853, Webster, Massachusetts, USA

Marcel was 22 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1856 Birth of Child
Marcel Joseph BENOIT was born 7 March 1856, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime)

Marcel was 24 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

1859 Birth of Child
Marie BENOIT was born 28 March 1859, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

Marcel was 27 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Birth of Child
Lucie BENOIT was born 14 January 1865, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime)

Marcel was 33 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 Birth of Child
Aime BENOIT was born 15 April 1867, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime)

Marcel was 35 years old.

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.

1870 Birth of Child
Catherine-Celina BENOIT was born 10 February 1870, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime)

Marcel was 38 years old.

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

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1876 Marriage of Child
Marcel Joseph BENOIT married 2 August 1876, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception) to Clarice (Clarisse) Julie (Clara) BOUCHER

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada