Marie-Christine GERVAIS

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3 June 1831 , Batiscan, Lower Canada

Died

September 1883 , Québec, Québec, Canada

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Born: 3 June 1831 in Batiscan, Lower Canada

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Marie-Christine married Archange COSSETTE 19 February 1849 in Saint-Stanislas, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Archange COSSETTE was born 11 April 1819 in Saint-Stanislas, Québec, Canada (St-Stanislas-de-Batiscan). Archange died 9 September 1883 in Saint-Narcisse, Quebec, Canada.

Marie-Christine GERVAIS died September 1883 in Québec, 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-Christine GERVAIS married

Archange COSSETTE
Marriage date: 19 February 1849
Marriage place: Saint-Stanislas, Canada East

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Children of Archange COSSETTE and Marie-Christine GERVAIS

Joseph Télesphore COSSETTE

Born: 21 April 1852, Saint-Narcisse, Mauricie Region, Quebec, Canada
Died: 23 March 1940, Tarsus, Bottineau County, North Dakota, USA

Married: Rosalie VILLENEUVE 1886

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Birth — 1831
3 June 1831
Batiscan, Lower Canada

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)

1849 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Christine GERVAIS and Archange COSSETTE 19 February 1849, Saint-Stanislas, Québec, Canada (St-Stanislas-de-Batiscan)

She was 17 years old.

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

1852 Birth of Child
Joseph Télesphore COSSETTE was born 21 April 1852, Saint-Narcisse, Mauricie Region, Quebec, Canada

Marie-Christine was 20 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.