Antoine PILON

(b. 28 October 1785 , Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada d. 16 May 1869 , St. Norbert, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada )

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Antoine PILON was born 28 October 1785 in Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada

Antoine PILON was the child of Pierre-Francois PILON and Francoise-Marie ROBIDOUX

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

Antoine married Angelique Lisette LEMAY abt. 1823 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Angelique Lisette LEMAY was born abt. 1805 in Red River Settlement, Manitoba, Canada. Angelique Lisette died 17 October 1898 in St. Norbert, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Angelique Lisette was the child of Joseph LEMAY and Louise MONTAGNAISE.

Antoine PILON died 16 May 1869 in St. Norbert, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 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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Antoine PILON married

Angelique Lisette LEMAY-- Date: abt. 1823 Place:
Angelique Lisette LEMAY was the child of Joseph LEMAY and Louise MONTAGNAISE

Children of Antoine PILON and Angelique Lisette LEMAY:

Scholastique Angelique PILON (b.abt. 1823, St Norbert, Manitoba, Canada d. 21 May 1918, Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
m. Thomas FROBISHER 1841 in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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1785 Birth
28 October 1785
Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower 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)

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

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

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.