Zoe DEMERS

Born

23 March 1828 , Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval, Lower Canada

Died

10 September 1897 , L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada

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Born: 23 March 1828 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval, Lower Canada

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Zoe married Joseph MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES 21 January 1846 in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES was born 16 August 1821 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada.

Zoe DEMERS died 10 September 1897 in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Zoe DEMERS married

Joseph MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES
Marriage date: 21 January 1846
Marriage place: L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada

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Children of Joseph MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Zoe DEMERS

Marie May MAINVILLE

Born: 17 July 1852, Pontiac, Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada
Died: 23 July 1919, Pontiac, Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada

Married: Damase Thomas PLEAU 24 April 1871 Place: Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island)

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Birth — 1828
23 March 1828
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval, Lower Canada

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 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)

1846 Marriage / Partner
Zoe DEMERS and Joseph MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES 21 January 1846, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada

She was 17 years old.

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

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

1852 Birth of Child
Marie May MAINVILLE was born 17 July 1852, Pontiac, Allumette Island, Quebec, Canada

Zoe was 24 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.

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.

1871 Marriage of Child
Marie May MAINVILLE married 24 April 1871, Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island) to Damase Thomas PLEAU

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.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada