Marie-Esther TRUDEAU

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23 July 1815 , La Prairie, Lower Canada

Died

16 November 1893 , Napierville, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste TRUDEAU Marie GOYER (GOYET)

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Born: 23 July 1815 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste TRUDEAU

Mother: Marie GOYER (GOYET)

Paternal grandparents: Pierre-Etienne TRUDEAU , Louise DEZERY

Maternal grandparents: Amable GOYER , Marie-Jeanne LEBEAU dite LALOUETTE

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Marie-Esther married Jacques SOREL 13 November 1837 in Napierville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jacques SOREL was born 18 January 1814 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Jacques died 15 March 1894 in Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard). Jacques was the child of Jean-Louis SOREL and Desanges-Angelique VAUTRIN.

Marie-Esther TRUDEAU died 16 November 1893 in Napierville, 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-Esther TRUDEAU married

Jacques SOREL
Marriage date: 13 November 1837
Marriage place: Napierville, Lower Canada
Jacques SOREL was the child of Jean-Louis SOREL and Desanges-Angelique VAUTRIN

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Children of Jacques SOREL and Marie-Esther TRUDEAU

Harriet SOREL

Born: abt. 1848, Plattsburgh, New York, USA
Died: abt. 1881, Marquette, Michigan, USA

Married: John (Jean) SICOTTE

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Birth — 1815
23 July 1815
La Prairie, 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 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Esther TRUDEAU and Jacques SOREL 13 November 1837, Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard)

She was 22 years old.

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.