Adelaide DEMERS

Born

15 February 1811 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Died

10 September 1889 , Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Le Granit, Quebec, Canada

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Born: 15 February 1811 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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Adelaide married Joseph LAVERDIERE 16 July 1833 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph LAVERDIERE was born 10 January 1808 in Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce). Joseph died 29 September 1895 in Saint Camille, Cookshire, Compton, Quebec, Canada.

Adelaide DEMERS died 10 September 1889 in Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Le Granit, 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
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Adelaide DEMERS married

Joseph LAVERDIERE
Marriage date: 16 July 1833
Marriage place: Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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Children of Joseph LAVERDIERE and Adelaide DEMERS

David LAVERDIERE

Born: 9 January 1848, Mégantic, Quebec, Canada
Died: 5 October 1920, Courcelles, Frontenac, Quebec, Canada

Married: Marie POULIOT 7 February 1872

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Birth — 1811
15 February 1811
Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

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

1833 Marriage / Partner
Adelaide DEMERS and Joseph LAVERDIERE 16 July 1833, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

She was 22 years old.

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)

1848 Birth of Child
David LAVERDIERE was born 9 January 1848, Mégantic, Quebec, Canada

Adelaide was 36 years old.

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

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.