Marie-Esther DEMERS

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18 March 1816 , Saint-Nicolas, Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, Lower Canada

Died

1 January 1890 , Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste DEMERS Euphrosine PAQUET

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Born: 18 March 1816 in Saint-Nicolas, Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste DEMERS

Mother: Euphrosine PAQUET

Paternal grandparents: Pierre DEMERS , Marie-Françoise FRECHETTE

Maternal grandparents: Jean-François PAQUET , Angélique DEMERS

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Marie-Esther married Gabriel LADRIERE (FLAMMAND) 11 January 1847 in Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Gabriel LADRIERE (FLAMMAND) was born 3 May 1807 in Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada . Gabriel died 14 July 1889 in Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada (St-Jérôme de Metabetchouan). Gabriel was the child of Michel LADRIERE and Marguerite CARRIER.

Marie-Esther DEMERS died 1 January 1890 in Beauport, 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-Esther DEMERS married

Gabriel LADRIERE (FLAMMAND)
Marriage date: 11 January 1847
Marriage place: Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Canada East
Gabriel LADRIERE (FLAMMAND) was the child of Michel LADRIERE and Marguerite CARRIER

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Children of Gabriel LADRIERE (FLAMMAND) and Marie-Esther DEMERS

Flavien FLAMAND

Born: 14 October 1849, Saint-Norbert-D'Arthabaska, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada
Died: 27 December 1902, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada

Married: Julie MORAIS 9 October 1866 Place: Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)

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Birth — 1816
18 March 1816
Saint-Nicolas, Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, 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 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 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Esther DEMERS and Gabriel LADRIERE (FLAMMAND) 11 January 1847, Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Québec, Canada

She was 30 years old.

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

1849 Birth of Child
Flavien FLAMAND was born 14 October 1849, Saint-Norbert-D'Arthabaska, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada

Marie-Esther was 33 years old.

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)

1866 Marriage of Child
Flavien FLAMAND married 9 October 1866, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport) to Julie MORAIS

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.

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)

1889 Death of Spouse/Partner
Gabriel LADRIERE (FLAMMAND) died 14 July 1889, Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada (St-Jérôme de Metabetchouan)

Death — 1890
1 January 1890
Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 73.

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