Joseph GOUR

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22 May 1815 , Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada

Died

30 July 1888 , Prescott, Ontario, Canada

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Born: 22 May 1815 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada

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Joseph married Marie-Marguerite RIVEST 9 February 1836 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Marguerite RIVEST was born 4 October 1818 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada. Marie-Marguerite died 27 February 1886 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada.

Joseph GOUR died 30 July 1888 in Prescott, Ontario, Canada.
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Joseph GOUR married

Marie-Marguerite RIVEST
Marriage date: 9 February 1836
Marriage place: Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada

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Children of Joseph GOUR and Marie-Marguerite RIVEST

Damase GOUR

Born: 4 September 1845, Saint-Lin, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada
Died: 19 November 1922,

Married: Rosalie ALLARD 18 January 1869

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Birth — 1815
22 May 1815
Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, 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 Marriage / Partner
Joseph GOUR and Marie-Marguerite RIVEST 9 February 1836, Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada

He was 20 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)

1845 Birth of Child
Damase GOUR was born 4 September 1845, Saint-Lin, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada

Joseph was 30 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.