Charles DUPONT

(b. abt. 1789 , Québec Province, Canada d. 17 September 1870 , Yamachiche, Québec, Canada )

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Charles DUPONT was born abt. 1789 in Québec Province, Canada

Charles DUPONT was the child of Guillaume Alexis DUPONT dit FLAMANT and Marie-Elisabeth BETTEZ and the grandchild of: (maternal) Jacob BETTEZ and Geneviève LAPARÉ

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Charles married Marguerite FALARDEAU 11 January 1830 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite FALARDEAU was born abt. 1797 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marguerite was the child of François FALARDEAU and Angele BIRON.

Charles DUPONT died 17 September 1870 in Yamachiche, 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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Family and Children of Charles DUPONT

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Charles DUPONT married

Marguerite FALARDEAU-- Date: 11 January 1830 Place: Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada
Marguerite FALARDEAU was the child of François FALARDEAU and Angele BIRON

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Children of Charles DUPONT and Marguerite FALARDEAU:

Marie-Caroline DUPONT (b.27 December 1835, Yamachiche, Lower Canada d. 2/19/1905, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada )
m. François Xavier GERIN dit LAJOIE

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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 - 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 Marriage / Partner
Charles DUPONT and Marguerite FALARDEAU 11 January 1830, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Birth of Child
Marie-Caroline DUPONT was born 27 December 1835, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche)

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.