Agapit RIVET

Born

17 February 1820 , Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada

Died

abt. 1880 , Québec Province, Canada

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Charles RIVET Marie-Marguerite AUMOND

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Born: 17 February 1820 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada

Father: Charles RIVET

Mother: Marie-Marguerite AUMOND

Paternal grandparents: Joseph-Michel RIVET , Marie LAPERCHE dite ST-JEAN

Maternal grandparents: François AUMOND , Marie-Louise JANSON dite LAPLAME

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Agapit married Luce LANGEVIN dite LACROIX abt. 1842 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Luce LANGEVIN dite LACROIX was born 8 December 1829 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada. Luce was the child of André LANGEVIN dit LACROIX and Luce LIRETTE (HILERET).

Agapit RIVET died abt. 1880 in Québec Province, 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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Agapit RIVET married

Luce LANGEVIN dite LACROIX
Marriage date: abt. 1842
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Luce LANGEVIN dite LACROIX was the child of André LANGEVIN dit LACROIX and Luce LIRETTE (HILERET)

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Agapit RIVET

Born: December 1842, Québec, Canada East
Died: 19 November 1922, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada

Married: Gracia HEBERT 28 January 1878 Place: Maniwaki, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1820
17 February 1820
Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada

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

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

1842 Birth of Child
Agapit RIVET was born December 1842, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Agapit was 22 years old.

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 - 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.