Marie-Madeleine POIRIER

Born

16 August 1816 , Sorel, Lower Canada

Died

10 December 1881 , Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

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Joseph POIRIER Madeleine HUS MILET (MILLET)

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Born: 16 August 1816 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph POIRIER

Mother: Madeleine HUS MILET (MILLET)

Paternal grandparents: François POIRIER , Louise LAGUERCE

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste HUS MILET (MILLET) , Marie-Madeleine GIGUERE

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Marie-Madeleine married Pierre ARPIN 4 February 1840 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Pierre ARPIN was born 19 August 1809 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Pierre died 14 September 1876 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada. Pierre was the child of Joseph ARPIN and Marguerite PICHET dite DUPRÉ.

Marie-Madeleine POIRIER died 10 December 1881 in Sainte-Victoire-de-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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Marie-Madeleine POIRIER married

Pierre ARPIN
Marriage date: 4 February 1840
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Pierre ARPIN was the child of Joseph ARPIN and Marguerite PICHET dite DUPRÉ

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Children of Pierre ARPIN and Marie-Madeleine POIRIER

François ARPIN

Born: abt. 1842, , Canada
Died: ,

Married: Celina THIBAULT 4 April 1867 Place: Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime)

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Birth — 1816
16 August 1816
Sorel, 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

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 / Partner
Marie-Madeleine POIRIER and Pierre ARPIN 4 February 1840, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 23 years old.

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

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 Marriage of Child
François ARPIN married 4 April 1867, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime) to Celina THIBAULT