Antoine LETENDRE

(b. 16 January 1787 , Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada d. 6 December 1868 , Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Antoine LETENDRE was born 16 January 1787 in Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada

Antoine LETENDRE was the child of Antoine LETENDRE and Pélagie DUPUIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste LETENDRE dit ST-THOMAS and Marie-Jeanne HUS PAUL (maternal) Louis-Charles DUPUIS and Marie-Josephe PETIT dite BRUNEAU (BRUNO)

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

Antoine married Marie PELOQUIN 1 July 1817 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 9 children.
Marie PELOQUIN was born 23 April 1797 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Marie died 10 May 1877 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Marie was the child of Jean-Baptiste PELOQUIN and Marie-Thérèse MANDEVILLE.

Antoine LETENDRE died 6 December 1868 in Sorel, 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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Family and Children of Antoine LETENDRE

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Antoine LETENDRE married

Marie PELOQUIN-- Date: 1 July 1817 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
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Marie PELOQUIN was the child of Jean-Baptiste PELOQUIN and Marie-Thérèse MANDEVILLE

St-Pierre

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Children of Antoine LETENDRE and Marie PELOQUIN:

Marie LETENDRE (b.9 July 1818, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 23 February 1820, Sorel, Lower Canada )

Emelie LETENDRE (b.14 February 1820, Sorel, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Magloire PAUL HUS 10 November 1840 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Pelagie LETENDRE (b.30 May 1822, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 11 May 1900, St. Jean Baptiste, Montcalm Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada)

Edwidge-Eloise LETENDRE (b.15 October 1824, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 9 March 1909, Quyon, Pontiac, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada)

Edouard LETENDRE (b.24 September 1827, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 18 June 1870, Sorel, Québec, Canada )
m. Theotiste PROVENÇAL 4 November 1851 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine LETENDRE (b.24 April 1830, Sorel, Lower Canada d. , )

Felix LETENDRE (b.5 August 1832, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 29 April 1909, )

Jean-Baptiste LETENDRE (b.27 May 1835, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 18 August 1892, )

Malvina LETENDRE (b.abt. 1840, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1787 Birth
16 January 1787
Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada

Baptism

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The French In North America: 1500-1783

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Antoine LETENDRE and Marie PELOQUIN 1 July 1817, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 30 years old.

1817 marriage

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1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1818 Birth of Child
Marie LETENDRE was born 9 July 1818, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 31 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1820 Birth of Child
Emelie LETENDRE was born 14 February 1820, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 33 years old.

1820 Death of Child
Marie LETENDRE died 23 February 1820, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 33 years old.

1822 Birth of Child
Pelagie LETENDRE was born 30 May 1822, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 35 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Birth of Child
Edwidge-Eloise LETENDRE was born 15 October 1824, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 37 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Edouard LETENDRE was born 24 September 1827, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 40 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 Birth of Child
Antoine LETENDRE was born 24 April 1830, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 43 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Felix LETENDRE was born 5 August 1832, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 45 years old.

1835 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste LETENDRE was born 27 May 1835, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Antoine was 48 years old.

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

1840 Marriage of Child
Emelie LETENDRE married 10 November 1840, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Magloire PAUL HUS

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)

1851 Marriage of Child
Edouard LETENDRE married 4 November 1851, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Theotiste PROVENÇAL

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.