Edouard LETENDRE

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24 September 1827 , Sorel, Lower Canada

Died

18 June 1870 , Sorel, Québec, Canada

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Antoine LETENDRE Marie PELOQUIN

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Born: 24 September 1827 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Father: Antoine LETENDRE

Mother: Marie PELOQUIN

Paternal grandparents: Antoine LETENDRE , Pélagie DUPUIS

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste PELOQUIN , Marie-Thérèse MANDEVILLE

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Edouard married Theotiste PROVENÇAL 4 November 1851 in Sorel, Canada East . Theotiste PROVENÇAL was born abt. 1831 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Theotiste died 17 May 1909 in Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada. Theotiste was the child of Louis LEROUX dit PROVENÇAL and Marie-Anne BIBEAU.

Edouard LETENDRE died 18 June 1870 in Sorel, 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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Theotiste PROVENÇAL
Marriage date: 4 November 1851
Marriage place: Sorel, Canada East
Theotiste PROVENÇAL was the child of Louis LEROUX dit PROVENÇAL and Marie-Anne BIBEAU

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Birth — 1827
24 September 1827
Sorel, Lower Canada

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)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Edouard LETENDRE and Theotiste PROVENÇAL 4 November 1851, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 24 years old.

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.