Eleonore CARIGNAN

Born

13 September 1836 , Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Died

22 January 1899 , Plessisville, Québec, Canada

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Joseph BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS

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Born: 13 September 1836 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN

Mother: Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS

Paternal grandparents: Joseph CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU , Marie-Madeleine LACOURSE dite DAVID

Maternal grandparents: Pierre DARGIS dit DESROSIERS , Reine-Marie BOURQ

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Eleonore married Joseph PROVENCHER 23 May 1853 in Plessisville, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph PROVENCHER was born 11 March 1833 in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada. Joseph died 10 May 1906 in Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset). Joseph was the child of Joseph-Cadet PROVENCHER and Victoire LEBLANC.

Eleonore CARIGNAN died 22 January 1899 in Plessisville, 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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Eleonore CARIGNAN married

Joseph PROVENCHER
Marriage date: 23 May 1853
Marriage place: Plessisville, Canada East
Joseph PROVENCHER was the child of Joseph-Cadet PROVENCHER and Victoire LEBLANC

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Theodore PROVENCHER

Born: February 10, 1854, Plessisville, Canada East
Died: January 13, 1935, Norbertville, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada

Married: Luce LETOURNEAU 30 August 1875 Place: Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1836
13 September 1836
Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada

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.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Eleonore CARIGNAN and Joseph PROVENCHER 23 May 1853, Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset)

She was 16 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Birth of Child
Theodore PROVENCHER was born February 10, 1854, Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset)

Eleonore was 17 years old.

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.