Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX)

(b. 5 February 1812 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 4 February 1902 , Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada )

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Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX) was born 5 February 1812 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX) was the child of Amable CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX) and Josephte MONBLEAU dite LATULIPPE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX) and Charlotte-Amable GERVAIS (maternal) Pierre MONBLEAU (MAUBLOT) and Marie-Angelique SENÉCAL

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

Josephte married Joseph SURPRENANT 6 June 1831 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 9 children.
Joseph SURPRENANT was born 5 September 1807 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Joseph died 31 August 1901 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada. Joseph was the child of Pierre SURPRENANT and Marie-Madeleine GERVAIS.

Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX) died 4 February 1902 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, 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 Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX)

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Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX) married

Joseph SURPRENANT-- Date: 6 June 1831 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
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Joseph SURPRENANT was the child of Pierre SURPRENANT and Marie-Madeleine GERVAIS

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Children of Joseph SURPRENANT and Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX):

Josephte SURPRENANT (b.12 March 1832, Napierville, Lower Canada d. 1 February 1912, La Patrie, Quebec, Canada)

Joseph SURPRENANT (b.15 April 1834, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 1 August 1835, L'Acadie, Lower Canada )

Marguerite SURPRENANT (b.8 November 1836, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 11 July 1881, Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington, Québec, Canada )

Joseph Romuald "Remi" SURPRENANT (b.6 February 1839, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 11 April 1917, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada)
m. Euphemie BISAILLON 10 November 1857 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Odile SURPRENANT (b.24 April 1842, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East d. 29 November 1902, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )

Sophie SURPRENANT (b.29 May 1844, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East d. 15 April 1917, Ste-Christine, Quebec, Canada)

Theophile SURPRENANT (b.13 March 1846, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East d. 27 January 1923, Montréal, Québec, Canada )

Marie-Ovile SURPRENANT (b.8 October 1849, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East d. 12 January 1928, Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington, Québec, Canada )

Joseph SURPRENANT (b.16 July 1855, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East d. 9 November 1857, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East)

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1812 Birth
5 February 1812
La Prairie, 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

1831 Marriage / Partner
Josephte CHALIFOUR (CHALIFOUX) and Joseph SURPRENANT 6 June 1831, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

She was 19 years old.

1832 Birth of Child
Josephte SURPRENANT was born 12 March 1832, Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard)

Josephte was 20 years old.

1834 Birth of Child
Joseph SURPRENANT was born 15 April 1834, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Josephte was 22 years old.

1835 Death of Child
Joseph SURPRENANT died 1 August 1835, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Josephte was 23 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Birth of Child
Marguerite SURPRENANT was born 8 November 1836, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Josephte was 24 years old.

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1839 Birth of Child
Joseph Romuald "Remi" SURPRENANT was born 6 February 1839, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Josephte was 27 years old.

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
Odile SURPRENANT was born 24 April 1842, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Josephte was 30 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)

1844 Birth of Child
Sophie SURPRENANT was born 29 May 1844, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Josephte was 32 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1846 Birth of Child
Theophile SURPRENANT was born 13 March 1846, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Josephte was 34 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 Birth of Child
Marie-Ovile SURPRENANT was born 8 October 1849, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Josephte was 37 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

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

1855 Birth of Child
Joseph SURPRENANT was born 16 July 1855, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Josephte was 43 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.

1857 Death of Child
Joseph SURPRENANT died 9 November 1857, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Josephte was 45 years old.

1857 Marriage of Child
Joseph Romuald "Remi" SURPRENANT married 10 November 1857, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada to Euphemie BISAILLON

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.

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)

1881 Death of Child
Marguerite SURPRENANT died 11 July 1881, Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington, Québec, Canada (Sherrington)

Josephte was 69 years old.

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

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

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)