Emilie CYR

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9 April 1818 , Paspébiac, Lower Canada

Died

16 December 1883 , Pabos, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

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Pierre CYR Rosalie GARNIER (GRENIER)

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Born: 9 April 1818 in Paspébiac, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre CYR

Mother: Rosalie GARNIER (GRENIER)

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Emilie married Fidele LEBLANC 6 September 1839 in Percé, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Fidele LEBLANC was born 19 September 1803 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer). Fidele died 4 March 1884 in Pabos, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada. Fidele was the child of Benjamin LEBLANC and Marie-Judith COMEAU.

Emilie CYR died 16 December 1883 in Pabos, Gaspe, 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.
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Emilie CYR married

Fidele LEBLANC
Marriage date: 6 September 1839
Marriage place: Percé, Lower Canada
Fidele LEBLANC was the child of Benjamin LEBLANC and Marie-Judith COMEAU

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Osias LEBLANC

Born: 26 September 1854, Grande-Rivière, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada
Died: 29 December 1919, Pabos, Chandler, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada

Married: Angele BLAIS 26 September 1887

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Birth — 1818
9 April 1818
Paspébiac, Lower Canada

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

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)

1839 Marriage / Partner
Emilie CYR and Fidele LEBLANC 6 September 1839, Percé, Québec, Canada (Perce) (North Beach) (South Beach)

She was 21 years old.

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.

1854 Birth of Child
Osias LEBLANC was born 26 September 1854, Grande-Rivière, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada

Emilie was 36 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

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.