Pierre MENARD

Born

19 October 1790 , Chambly, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

abt. 1881 , Québec Province, Canada

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Pierre MÉNARD dit BELLEROSE Marguerite PIEDALUE

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Born: 19 October 1790 in Chambly, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Pierre MÉNARD dit BELLEROSE

Mother: Marguerite PIEDALUE

Paternal grandparents: Louis MÉNARD dit BELLEROSE , Marie-Josephe PATENAUDE

Maternal grandparents: Joseph PIEDALUE , Marie-Anne BOURASSA

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Pierre married Marie-Josephte BROSSEAU 30 October 1820 in Saint-Luc, Lower Canada . Marie-Josephte BROSSEAU was born abt. 1800 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Josephte died 11 March 1832 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester). Marie-Josephte was the child of Pierre BROSSEAU and Josephte TOUGAS.

Pierre married (2) Rose SIMARD 12 February 1833 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada . Rose SIMARD was born 15 August 1807 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Rose was the child of Joseph SIMARD and Rosalie MORIN.

Pierre MENARD died abt. 1881 in Québec Province, 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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Pierre MENARD married

Marie-Josephte BROSSEAU
Marriage date: 30 October 1820
Marriage place: Saint-Luc, Lower Canada
Marie-Josephte BROSSEAU was the child of Pierre BROSSEAU and Josephte TOUGAS

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Pierre MENARD married

Rose SIMARD
Marriage date: 12 February 1833
Marriage place: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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Rose SIMARD was the child of Joseph SIMARD and Rosalie MORIN

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Birth — 1790
19 October 1790
Chambly, Province of Québec, 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)

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 Marriage / Partner
Pierre MENARD and Marie-Josephte BROSSEAU 30 October 1820, Saint-Luc, Québec, Canada

He was 30 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

1832 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Josephte BROSSEAU died 11 March 1832, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester)

1833 Marriage / Partner
Pierre MENARD and Rose SIMARD 12 February 1833, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester)

He was 42 years old.

1833 marriage

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

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.