Marie-Celeste CHOUINARD

Born

5 September 1800 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Died

11 February 1873 , Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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Born: 5 September 1800 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

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Marie-Celeste married Joseph-Henri OUELLET 29 October 1822 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph-Henri OUELLET was born 29 July 1802 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada. Joseph-Henri died 26 March 1889 in Saint-Modeste, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada.

Marie-Celeste CHOUINARD died 11 February 1873 in Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici, Rimouski, Québec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Marie-Celeste CHOUINARD married

Joseph-Henri OUELLET
Marriage date: 29 October 1822
Marriage place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

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Pierre OUELLET

Born: 29 June 1838, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada
Died: 12 July 1911, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Married: Louise-Virginie BROSSOIS 9 January 1858 Place: Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois)

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Birth — 1800
5 September 1800
Kamouraska, 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

1822 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Celeste CHOUINARD and Joseph-Henri OUELLET 29 October 1822, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

She was 22 years old.

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

1838 Birth of Child
Pierre OUELLET was born 29 June 1838, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

Marie-Celeste was 37 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

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 Marriage of Child
Pierre OUELLET married 9 January 1858, Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois) to Louise-Virginie BROSSOIS

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.