Michel ROBILLARD

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18 January 1807 , Lavaltrie, Lower Canada

Died

29 September 1877 , Joliette, Québec, Canada

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Michel ROBILLARD Genevieve CHARRON

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Born: 18 January 1807 in Lavaltrie, Lower Canada

Father: Michel ROBILLARD

Mother: Genevieve CHARRON

Paternal grandparents: Pierre ROBILLARD , Marie JOLY

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste CHARRON dit DUCHARME , Genevieve JOLY dite DELBEC

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Michel married Marie-Rosalie BRISSETTE 8 February 1831 in Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Rosalie BRISSETTE was born 25 June 1810 in Sainte-Élisabeth, Québec, Canada (Ste-Elisabeth). Marie-Rosalie was the child of Joseph BRISSET (BRISSETTE) and Marie LAVOIE.

Michel ROBILLARD died 29 September 1877 in Joliette, 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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Marie-Rosalie BRISSETTE
Marriage date: 8 February 1831
Marriage place: Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada
Marie-Rosalie BRISSETTE was the child of Joseph BRISSET (BRISSETTE) and Marie LAVOIE

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Children of Michel ROBILLARD and Marie-Rosalie BRISSETTE

Josephine-Rose ROBILLARD

Born: 13 October 1847, Joliette, Canada East
Died: 15 March 1907, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Nérée CAPISTRAN 14 May 1872 Place: Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie)

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Birth — 1807
18 January 1807
Lavaltrie, 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

1831 Marriage / Partner
Michel ROBILLARD and Marie-Rosalie BRISSETTE 8 February 1831, Sainte-Élisabeth, Québec, Canada (Ste-Elisabeth)

He was 24 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)

1847 Birth of Child
Josephine-Rose ROBILLARD was born 13 October 1847, Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie)

Michel was 40 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.

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.

1872 Marriage of Child
Josephine-Rose ROBILLARD married 14 May 1872, Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie) to Nérée CAPISTRAN

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.