Camille
LEFEBVRE
Born
14 February 1831
,
La Prairie, Lower Canada
Died
28 January 1895
,
Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
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Born: 14 February 1831 in La Prairie, Lower Canada
Father:
Jean-Louis LEFEBVRE
Mother:
Veronique BOUTHILLIER
Paternal grandparents:
Louis LEFEBVRE
, Marie-Louise PROVOST
Camille LEFEBVRE died 28 January 1895 in Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Recorded occupation: Instituteur Père de Ste-Croix
Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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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Birth — 183114 February 1831
La Prairie, Lower Canada
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LEFEBVRE, CAMILLE, instituteur, père de Sainte-Croix, vicaire général et administrateur scolaire, né le 14 février 1831 à Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Bas-Canada, unique enfant de Louis Lefebvre, ouvrier, et de sa troisième femme, Véronique Bouthillier, veuve de Jean-Baptiste Moquin ; décédé le 28 janvier 1895 à Memramcook, Nouveau-Brunswick.
Lorsque Camille Lefebvre naquit, son père avait environ 63 ans et sa mère approchait de ses 45 ans. Il était le treizième enfant de son père, et sa mère en avait eu deux d’un mariage précédent. Il allait perdre ses parents au début de sa vie d’adulte : son père en 1846 et sa mère huit ans plus tard.
Son enfance et son adolescence préparèrent Lefebvre à se sentir solidaire de ceux pour qui il allait se dévouer plus tard : les Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick. Sa famille savait ce qu’était la pénurie mais ne vécut jamais dans la pauvreté. Son père possédait quelques biens et, à sa mort, Camille et sa mère trouvèrent de l’aide auprès de parents ...Read full story
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
LEFEBVRE, CAMILLE, instituteur, père de Sainte-Croix, vicaire général et administrateur scolaire, né le 14 février 1831 à Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Bas-Canada, unique enfant de Louis Lefebvre, ouvrier, et de sa troisième femme, Véronique Bouthillier, veuve de Jean-Baptiste Moquin ; décédé le 28 janvier 1895 à Memramcook, Nouveau-Brunswick.
Lorsque Camille Lefebvre naquit, son père avait environ 63 ans et sa mère approchait de ses 45 ans. Il était le treizième enfant de son père, et sa mère en avait eu deux d’un mariage précédent. Il allait perdre ses parents au début de sa vie d’adulte : son père en 1846 et sa mère huit ans plus tard.
Son enfance et son adolescence préparèrent Lefebvre à se sentir solidaire de ceux pour qui il allait se dévouer plus tard : les Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick. Sa famille savait ce qu’était la pénurie mais ne vécut jamais dans la pauvreté. Son père possédait quelques biens et, à sa mort, Camille et sa mère trouvèrent de l’aide auprès de parents ...Read full story
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England
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)
1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.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.
1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada 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. 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 Canada1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Death — 189528 January 1895
Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
He died at the age of 63.
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