Claire GAUDREAU

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9 September 1790 , L'Islet, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

abt. 1881 , New Brunswick, Canada

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Born: 9 September 1790 in L'Islet, Province of Québec, Canada

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Mother: Unknown

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Claire married Joseph-Marie DOMINIQUE 22 November 1808 in Saint-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph-Marie DOMINIQUE was born 4 March 1778 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Joseph-Marie died 22 January 1846 in Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston).

Claire GAUDREAU died abt. 1881 in New Brunswick, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Claire GAUDREAU married

Joseph-Marie DOMINIQUE
Marriage date: 22 November 1808
Marriage place: Saint-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, Québec, Canada

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Children of Joseph-Marie DOMINIQUE and Claire GAUDREAU

Marcelline DOMINIQUE dite REAU

Born: 7 March 1811, Saint-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, Devon, Quebec, Canada
Died: 13 February 1887, Saint-François, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Firmin DAIGLE 2 March 1829 Place: Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston)

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Birth — 1790
9 September 1790
L'Islet, 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)

1808 Marriage / Partner
Claire GAUDREAU and Joseph-Marie DOMINIQUE 22 November 1808, Saint-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, Québec, Canada

She was 18 years old.

1811 Birth of Child
Marcelline DOMINIQUE dite REAU was born 7 March 1811, Saint-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, Devon, Quebec, Canada

Claire was 20 years old.

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)

1829 Marriage of Child
Marcelline DOMINIQUE dite REAU married 2 March 1829, Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston) to Firmin DAIGLE

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)

1846 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph-Marie DOMINIQUE died 22 January 1846, Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston)

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.