Louis-Marie TOUSSAINT

(b. 19 May 1791 , Québec Province, Canada d. 15 September 1868 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada )

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Louis-Marie TOUSSAINT was born 19 May 1791 in Québec Province, Canada

Louis-Marie TOUSSAINT was the child of ? and ?

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Louis-Marie married Julie PHILIBERT 2 August 1825 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julie PHILIBERT was born 1 April 1808 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada. Julie died 1 May 1883 in Saint-Aubert, L'Islet, Quebec, Canada.

Louis-Marie TOUSSAINT died 15 September 1868 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, 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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Louis-Marie TOUSSAINT married

Julie PHILIBERT-- Date: 2 August 1825 Place: Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

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Children of Louis-Marie TOUSSAINT and Julie PHILIBERT:

Olivier TOUSSAINT (b.31 March 1827, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. 2 February 1897, Gardner, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Helene PELLETIER 22 November 1859 in Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston)

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1791 Birth
19 May 1791
Québec Province, Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Louis-Marie TOUSSAINT and Julie PHILIBERT 2 August 1825, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

He was 34 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Olivier TOUSSAINT was born 31 March 1827, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

Louis-Marie was 35 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

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)

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

1859 Marriage of Child
Olivier TOUSSAINT married 22 November 1859, Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston) to Helene PELLETIER

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.