Elmire GAUVREAU

(b. abt. 1835 , Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada d. abt. 1871 , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada )

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Elmire GAUVREAU was born abt. 1835 in Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada

Elmire GAUVREAU was the child of Jean-Baptiste GAUVREAU and Marie-Desanges MARTIN dite VERSAILLES (ROUTURE)

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Elmire married Napoleon THERIEN 15 October 1850 in Montréal, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Napoleon THERIEN was born 17 November 1829 in Marieville, Rouville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir). Napoleon died 26 August 1902 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Napoleon was the child of Toussaint TERRIEN (THERRIEN) and Josephte GUILLET dite CINQMARS.

Elmire GAUVREAU died abt. 1871 in Ottawa, Ontario, 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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Elmire GAUVREAU married

Napoleon THERIEN-- Date: 15 October 1850 Place: Montréal, Canada East
Napoleon THERIEN was the child of Toussaint TERRIEN (THERRIEN) and Josephte GUILLET dite CINQMARS

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Children of Napoleon THERIEN and Elmire GAUVREAU:

Jean-Baptiste-Severe-Paul THERIEN (b.10 September 1852, Montréal, Canada East d. 8 July 1926, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
m. Lauda-Leda-Lydia GROLEAU 1872

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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)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1850 Marriage / Partner
Elmire GAUVREAU and Napoleon THERIEN 15 October 1850, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste-Severe-Paul THERIEN was born 10 September 1852, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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.