Marie-Esther BOUCHARD

(b. 26 December 1812 , La Pocatière, Lower Canada d. 24 November 1878 , Cookshire, Le Haut-Saint-François, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Esther BOUCHARD was born 26 December 1812 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada

Marie-Esther BOUCHARD was the child of ? and ?

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Marie-Esther married Antoine MARTEL 17 February 1835 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Antoine MARTEL was born 20 September 1810 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada. Antoine died 18 January 1885 in Eaton Township, Compton, Quebec, Canada.

Marie-Esther BOUCHARD died 24 November 1878 in Cookshire, Le Haut-Saint-François, 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 BOUCHARD married

Antoine MARTEL-- Date: 17 February 1835 Place: Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada

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Children of Antoine MARTEL and Marie-Esther BOUCHARD:

Marguerite MARTEL (b.6 March 1838, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 23 November 1896, Derby, Vermont, USA )
m. Augustin Justus DUBOIS (WOOD) 20 October 1856 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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1812 Birth
26 December 1812
La Pocatière, 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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Esther BOUCHARD and Antoine MARTEL 17 February 1835, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

She was 22 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

1838 Birth of Child
Marguerite MARTEL was born 6 March 1838, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Marie-Esther was 25 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.

1856 Marriage of Child
Marguerite MARTEL married 20 October 1856, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada to Augustin Justus DUBOIS (WOOD)

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.