Felicite ROSS

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15 February 1829 , Rimouski, Lower Canada

Died

2 January 1886 , Matane, Québec, Canada

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Born: 15 February 1829 in Rimouski, Lower Canada

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Felicite married Paul OUELLETTE 28 November 1848 in Sainte-Luce-de-Lessard, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Paul OUELLETTE was born 6 October 1823 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre). Paul died 28 December 1907

Felicite ROSS died 2 January 1886 in Matane, 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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Felicite ROSS married

Paul OUELLETTE
Marriage date: 28 November 1848
Marriage place: Sainte-Luce-de-Lessard, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada

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Children of Paul OUELLETTE and Felicite ROSS

Marie-Elisabeth OUELLET

Born: abt. 1855, Capucins, La Haute-Gaspésie, Canada East
Died: 16 December 1893, Les Méchins, Matane, Québec, Canada

Married: Octave GENDRON 7 October 1872 Place: Cap-Chat, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1829
15 February 1829
Rimouski, Lower Canada

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)

1848 Marriage / Partner
Felicite ROSS and Paul OUELLETTE 28 November 1848, Sainte-Luce-de-Lessard, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada

She was 19 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.