Sophie PLOURDE

(b. 10 January 1824 , Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 25 February 1898 , Kingsey Falls, Quebec, Canada )

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Sophie PLOURDE was born 10 January 1824 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada

Sophie PLOURDE was the child of Vincent PLOURDE and Geneviève HOUDE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis-Vincent PLOURDE and Victoire BOIS (maternal) Alexis-Clair HOUDE and Marie-Angélique CHEVREFILS dite BELISLE

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Sophie married Chrysostome ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN 24 February 1868 in Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Drummond, Québec, Canada . Chrysostome ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN was born abt. 1835 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Chrysostome was the child of Eustache ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN and Henriette BARIL.

Sophie PLOURDE died 25 February 1898 in Kingsey Falls, Quebec, Canada.

m. Joseph Boulay, 8 June 1840, Drummondville, St-Frederic, Quebec
m. Chrysostome Roux dit Sanschagrin 24 February 1868, St-Felix-de-Kingsey, Drummond, Quebec

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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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Chrysostome ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN-- Date: 24 February 1868 Place: Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Drummond, Québec, Canada
Chrysostome ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN was the child of Eustache ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN and Henriette BARIL

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1824 Birth
10 January 1824
Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada

Baptism
Naissance: 10 JAN 1824, St-Francois-du-Lac, Yamaska, QC
Baptême: 10 JAN 1824, St-Francois-du-Lac, Yamaska, QC
Par/ mar: Joseph Caya et Elisabeth Houl.

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

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 - 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.

1868 Marriage / Partner
Sophie PLOURDE and Chrysostome ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN 24 February 1868, Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Drummond, Québec, Canada (Kingsey)

She was 44 years old.

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)

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