Charles LAVALLÉE

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27 September 1784 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

7 October 1868 , Sorel, Québec, Canada

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Pierre LAVALLÉE Marie PÉLOQUIN dite FÉLIX

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Born: 27 September 1784 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Pierre LAVALLÉE

Mother: Marie PÉLOQUIN dite FÉLIX

Paternal grandparents: Michel LAVALLEE dit PAQUET , Marie-Geneviève DUTEAU

Maternal grandparents: Charles PELOQUIN dit FELIX , Élisabeth SALVAIL

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Charles married Françoise BEAUFORT dite BRUNELLE 7 January 1811 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Françoise BEAUFORT dite BRUNELLE was born abt. 1785 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Françoise was the child of Joseph BEAUFORT dit BRUNELLE and Marguerite MOREAU.

Charles LAVALLÉE died 7 October 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Charles LAVALLÉE married

Françoise BEAUFORT dite BRUNELLE
Marriage date: 7 January 1811
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Françoise BEAUFORT dite BRUNELLE was the child of Joseph BEAUFORT dit BRUNELLE and Marguerite MOREAU

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Children of Charles LAVALLÉE and Françoise BEAUFORT dite BRUNELLE

Pierre LAVALLEE

Born: abt. 1817, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Judith HUS COURNOYER 11 February 1839 Place: Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Joseph LAVALLÉE

Born: 15 December 1818, Sorel, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Marie HUS COURNOYER 2 February 1841 Place: Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Aurelie LAVALLEE

Born: 28 September 1836, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 13 November 1904, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Nazaire GRENIER 3 February 1859 Place: Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1784
27 September 1784
Québec Province, Canada

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)

1811 Marriage / Partner
Charles LAVALLÉE and Françoise BEAUFORT dite BRUNELLE 7 January 1811, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 26 years old.

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.

1818 Birth of Child
Joseph LAVALLÉE was born 15 December 1818, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Charles was 34 years old.

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

1836 Birth of Child
Aurelie LAVALLEE was born 28 September 1836, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Charles was 52 years old.

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

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

1839 Marriage of Child
Pierre LAVALLEE married 11 February 1839, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Judith HUS COURNOYER

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 Marriage of Child
Joseph LAVALLÉE married 2 February 1841, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Marie HUS COURNOYER

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.

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

1859 Marriage of Child
Aurelie LAVALLEE married 3 February 1859, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada to Nazaire GRENIER

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.