Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN

(b. 20 September 1803 , Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada d. 19 August 1891 , Hintonburg, Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada )

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Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN was born 20 September 1803 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada

Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN was the child of Pierre-Edouard D'AMOUR dit POTVIN and Francoise MIVILLE dite DESCHENES

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Marie-Ovide married Henri ALBERT dit LALLEMAND 18 February 1827 in Rigaud, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Henri ALBERT dit LALLEMAND was born 1 April 1804 in Saint-André-Est, Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Argenteuil, Québec, Canada. Henri died 17 September 1842 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Henri was the child of Jean Baptiste ALBERT and Marie-Josephte BRUNET dite LETANG.

Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN died 19 August 1891 in Hintonburg, Ottawa, Carleton, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN

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Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN married

Henri ALBERT dit LALLEMAND-- Date: 18 February 1827 Place: Rigaud, Lower Canada
Henri ALBERT dit LALLEMAND was the child of Jean Baptiste ALBERT and Marie-Josephte BRUNET dite LETANG

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Children of Henri ALBERT dit LALLEMAND and Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN:

Marie ALBERT (b.10 August 1837, Ottawa, Upper Canada d. 4 July 1919, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
m. Joseph POTVIN 1859

Victoria ALBERT dite LALLEMAND (b.17 February 1843, Nepean, Ottawa, Canada West d. 15 February 1931, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
m. Samuel POTVIN 1864

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1803 Birth
20 September 1803
Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Ovide D'AMOUR dite POTVIN and Henri ALBERT dit LALLEMAND 18 February 1827, Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud)

She was 23 years old.

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

1837 Birth of Child
Marie ALBERT was born 10 August 1837, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Marie-Ovide was 33 years old.

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

1842 Death of Spouse/Partner
Henri ALBERT dit LALLEMAND died 17 September 1842, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1843 Birth of Child
Victoria ALBERT dite LALLEMAND was born 17 February 1843, Nepean, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Marie-Ovide was 39 years old.

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)

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.