Veronique LAVALLÉE

(b. 16 August 1796 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. abt. 1868 , Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Veronique LAVALLÉE was born 16 August 1796 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Veronique LAVALLÉE was the child of Pierre LAVALLÉE and Marie-Ursule MANDEVILLE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Gérémie (Jérémie) Pierre LAVALLÉE and Élisabeth DESROSIERS DU TREMBLE (maternal) Joseph MANDEVILLE and Marie-Ursule BOURGAULT dite LACROIX

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

Veronique married Laurent DUMAS 23 November 1819 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Laurent DUMAS was born November 1798 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Laurent was the child of François DUMAS and Marie-Anne GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE.

Veronique LAVALLÉE died abt. 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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Veronique LAVALLÉE married

Laurent DUMAS-- Date: 23 November 1819 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Laurent DUMAS was the child of François DUMAS and Marie-Anne GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE

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Children of Laurent DUMAS and Veronique LAVALLÉE:

Laurent DUMAS (b.abt. 1819, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Aurelie DUMAS (b.30 September 1824, Sorel, Lower Canada d. , )

Alexis DUMAS (b.29 July 1830, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 19 March 1855, Sorel, Canada East )

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1796 Birth
16 August 1796
Sorel, Lower Canada

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

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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Veronique LAVALLÉE and Laurent DUMAS 23 November 1819, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 23 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

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

1824 Birth of Child
Aurelie DUMAS was born 30 September 1824, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Veronique was 28 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)

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1830 Birth of Child
Alexis DUMAS was born 29 July 1830, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Veronique was 33 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

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.

1855 Death of Child
Alexis DUMAS died 19 March 1855, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Veronique was 58 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.