Adelaide DEMERS

Born

October 1813 , Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

Died

25 October 1900 , Hull, Québec, Canada

Adelaide married Louis MAHEU 14 July 1840 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Louis MAHEU was born 16 December 1819 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada. Louis died 4 June 1894 in Hull, Québec, Canada . Louis was the child of Louis MAHEU and Angelique-Amable PERRIER .

Parents & Family of Adelaide DEMERS

Parents of Adelaide DEMERS

Father

Eustache DEMERS

Mother

Marie-Elisabeth FRESNAY

Grandparents of Adelaide DEMERS

Paternal grandparents

Joseph DEMERS Marie Anne LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAYE

Maternal grandparents

Leonard FRESNAY Cecile DUBE

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Adelaide DEMERS

Adelaide DEMERS married

Louis MAHEU
Marriage date: 14 July 1840
Marriage place: Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada
Louis MAHEU was the child of Louis MAHEU and Angelique-Amable PERRIER

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Louis MAHEU and Adelaide DEMERS

Marie Sophie Adelaide MAHEU

Born: 17 July 1853, Carillon, Quebec, Canada
Died: 4 August 1927, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Married: Etienne BOURGUIGNON 26 May 1873

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1813
October 1813
Sainte-Geneviève, 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

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 Marriage / Partner
Adelaide DEMERS and Louis MAHEU 14 July 1840, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

She was 26 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.

1853 Birth of Child
Marie Sophie Adelaide MAHEU was born 17 July 1853, Carillon, Quebec, Canada

Adelaide was 39 years old.

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.