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Marie-Antoinette ALLARD

(b. 19 April 1799 , Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada d. 13 September 1872 , Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Marie-Antoinette ALLARD was born 19 April 1799 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada

Marie-Antoinette ALLARD was the child of Augustin ALLARD and Marie Rose LANDRY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles-François ALLARD and Agnès Annette COMEAU (maternal) Claude LANDRY and Helene DUGAS

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Marie-Antoinette married David LANDRY 30 June 1818 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child. David LANDRY was born 13 September 1792 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada. David died 26 April 1871 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada. David was the child of Pierre LANDRY and Marguerite ALAIN (ALLAIN).

Marie-Antoinette ALLARD died 13 September 1872 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, 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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Spouse(s) / Partner(s) and Child(ren) of Marie-Antoinette ALLARD

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Marie-Antoinette ALLARD married

David LANDRY-- Date: 30 June 1818 Place: Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada
David LANDRY was the child of Pierre LANDRY and Marguerite ALAIN (ALLAIN)

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Children of David LANDRY and Marie-Antoinette ALLARD:

Elie Gedeon LANDRY (b.2 June 1825, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada d. abt. 1912, Paquetville, New Brunswick, Canada)
m. Tharsile GODIN 29 September 1856 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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1799 Birth
19 April 1799
Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer)

Baptism
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Antoinette ALLARD and David LANDRY 30 June 1818, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer)

She was 19 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)

1825 Birth of Child
Elie Gedeon LANDRY was born 2 June 1825, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

Marie-Antoinette was 26 years old.

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

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.

1856 Marriage of Child
Elie Gedeon LANDRY married 29 September 1856, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada to Tharsile GODIN

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.