Marguerite LEVASSEUR

(b. 24 October 1812 , Québec, Lower Canada d. 18 May 1885 , Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Marguerite LEVASSEUR was born 24 October 1812 in Québec, Lower Canada

Marguerite LEVASSEUR was the child of Charles LEVASSEUR and Marie-Anne LAPLANTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph LEVASSEUR and Marie Josephte GRANDMAISON

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Marguerite married Edouard LAVOIE 23 November 1830 in Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Edouard LAVOIE was born abt. 1817 in Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston). Edouard was the child of Jean-Roch LAVOIE and Marie-Angelique LANGLOIS.

Marguerite LEVASSEUR died 18 May 1885 in Grand Falls, 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.

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Marguerite LEVASSEUR married

Edouard LAVOIE-- Date: 23 November 1830 Place: Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada
Edouard LAVOIE was the child of Jean-Roch LAVOIE and Marie-Angelique LANGLOIS

Children of Edouard LAVOIE and Marguerite LEVASSEUR:

Marie Emilie Amelia LAVOIE (b.29 August 1831, d. 15 November 1894, Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada )
m. Bruno-Thomas ST AMAND 11 January 1848 in Van Buren, Maine, USA

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1812 Birth
24 October 1812
Québec, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite LEVASSEUR and Edouard LAVOIE 23 November 1830, Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada (Edmundston)

She was 18 years old.

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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Marie Emilie Amelia LAVOIE married 11 January 1848, Van Buren, Maine, USA to Bruno-Thomas ST AMAND

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.