Marguerite BONENFANT

(b. 9 July 1836 , Wickham, Drummond, Lower Canada d. 7 January 1868 , Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Québec, Canada )

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Marguerite BONENFANT was born 9 July 1836 in Wickham, Drummond, Lower Canada

Marguerite BONENFANT was the child of Pierre BONENFANT and Marie THEROUX dite LAFERTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel BONENFANT and Marie Anne PELLETIER (maternal) Nicolas THÉROUX dit LAFERTÉ and Marguerite GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU)

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

Marguerite married Isidore LETOURNEAU 22 September 1853 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Isidore LETOURNEAU was born 17 September 1828 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais). Isidore died 10 June 1903 in Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Québec, Canada. Isidore was the child of Isidore LETOURNEAU and Marie-Angele-Archange LEBRUN dite CARRIER.

Marguerite BONENFANT died 7 January 1868 in Saint-Norbert, Berthier, 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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Marguerite BONENFANT married

Isidore LETOURNEAU-- Date: 22 September 1853 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
Isidore LETOURNEAU was the child of Isidore LETOURNEAU and Marie-Angele-Archange LEBRUN dite CARRIER

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Children of Isidore LETOURNEAU and Marguerite BONENFANT:

Luce LETOURNEAU (b.8 February 1858, Saint-Isidore, Canada East d. 19 February 1905, Plessisville, Québec, Canada )
m. Theodore PROVENCHER 30 August 1875 in Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Québec, Canada

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1836 Birth
9 July 1836
Wickham, Drummond, 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
Marguerite BONENFANT and Isidore LETOURNEAU 22 September 1853, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

She was 17 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Luce LETOURNEAU was born 8 February 1858, Saint-Isidore, Québec, Canada

Marguerite was 21 years old.

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.