Adelaide TRAHAN

Born

7 March 1840 , Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada

Died

19 March 1916 , Weedon, Wolfe, Quebec, Canada

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Jacques TRAHAN Felicite HEBERT

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Born: 7 March 1840 in Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada

Father: Jacques TRAHAN

Mother: Felicite HEBERT

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN , Marie-Josephe THERRIEN

Maternal grandparents: Pierre HÉBERT , Marie-Apolline-Anastasie BREAULT (BRAULT)

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Adelaide married Octave GAUDREAU 20 January 1858 in Saint-Valentin, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Octave GAUDREAU was born 13 June 1839 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . Octave died abt. 1925 in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada. Octave was the child of Julien GAUDREAU and Marie-Celeste GIRARD.

Adelaide TRAHAN died 19 March 1916 in Weedon, Wolfe, Quebec, Canada.
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Adelaide TRAHAN married

Octave GAUDREAU
Marriage date: 20 January 1858
Marriage place: Saint-Valentin, Canada East
Octave GAUDREAU was the child of Julien GAUDREAU and Marie-Celeste GIRARD

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Octave GAUDREAU and Adelaide TRAHAN

Josephine GAUDREAU

Born: 14 September 1860, Saint-Valentin, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Jean-Louis DESROSIERS 21 July 1884 Place: Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1840
7 March 1840
Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Adelaide TRAHAN and Octave GAUDREAU 20 January 1858, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

She was 17 years old.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1860 Birth of Child
Josephine GAUDREAU was born 14 September 1860, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

Adelaide was 20 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1884 Marriage of Child
Josephine GAUDREAU married 21 July 1884, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA to Jean-Louis DESROSIERS

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1910 - May 6 - George V becomes King of England

1911 - October 10 - Robert Borden becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)