Sophie BOURRET

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9 August 1808 , Louiseville, Lower Canada

Died

25 April 1883 , Yamaska, Québec, Canada

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Born: 9 August 1808 in Louiseville, Lower Canada

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Sophie married Francois-Xavier RIVARD 8 August 1831 in Louiseville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Francois-Xavier RIVARD was born 17 May 1811 in Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Leon-le-Grand). Francois-Xavier died 15 May 1894 in Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska).

Sophie BOURRET died 25 April 1883 in Yamaska, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Sophie BOURRET married

Francois-Xavier RIVARD
Marriage date: 8 August 1831
Marriage place: Louiseville, Lower Canada

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Children of Francois-Xavier RIVARD and Sophie BOURRET

Marie-Alida-Adeline RIVARD

Born: 14 August 1847, Yamaska, Canada East
Died: 15 February 1890, Saint-David, Québec, Canada

Married: Joseph Hercule Alfred FLEURY 25 April 1870 Place: Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

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Birth — 1808
9 August 1808
Louiseville, 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
Sophie BOURRET and Francois-Xavier RIVARD 8 August 1831, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup)

She was 23 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
Marie-Alida-Adeline RIVARD was born 14 August 1847, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Sophie was 39 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.

1870 Marriage of Child
Marie-Alida-Adeline RIVARD married 25 April 1870, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska) to Joseph Hercule Alfred FLEURY

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)