Adelaide DUSSAULT

Born

19 May 1815 , Saint-Robert, Lower Canada

Died

8 March 1890 , Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada

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Jean Baptiste DUSSAULT Marguerite GRENIER

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Born: 19 May 1815 in Saint-Robert, Lower Canada

Father: Jean Baptiste DUSSAULT

Mother: Marguerite GRENIER

Paternal grandparents: Jean DUSSAULT , Marguerite FOREST

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste GRENIER , Marguerite SIMONEAU

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Adelaide married François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR 9 October 1838 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR was born 13 August 1815 in Yamaska, Lower Canada . François-Regis died 4 August 1890 in Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada. François-Regis was the child of Amable GERARD dit LAFLEUR and Archange BADAILLAC.

Adelaide DUSSAULT died 8 March 1890 in Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada.
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Adelaide DUSSAULT married

François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR
Marriage date: 9 October 1838
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR was the child of Amable GERARD dit LAFLEUR and Archange BADAILLAC

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Children of François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR and Adelaide DUSSAULT

Catherine LAFLEUR

Born: September 1854, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: abt. 1934, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Alfred PELOQUIN 7 January 1874 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 — 1815
19 May 1815
Saint-Robert, 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 - 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

1838 Marriage / Partner
Adelaide DUSSAULT and François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR 9 October 1838, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 23 years old.

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.

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

1854 Birth of Child
Catherine LAFLEUR was born September 1854, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Adelaide was 39 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.