Felicite HEBERT

(b. 17 April 1816 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 13 May 1897 , Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada )

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Felicite HEBERT was born 17 April 1816 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Felicite HEBERT was the child of Pierre HÉBERT and Marie-Apolline-Anastasie BREAULT (BRAULT) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Paul Olivier HÉBERT and Marie Felicite LANOUE (maternal) Jean Baptiste BRO (BREAULT) (BRAULT) and Marie-Charlotte BROSSEAU

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Felicite married Jacques TRAHAN 21 October 1834 in Saint-Luc, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jacques TRAHAN was born 18 April 1812 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Jacques died 18 October 1895 in Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada. Jacques was the child of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN and Marie-Josephe THERRIEN.

Felicite HEBERT died 13 May 1897 in Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada.

m. Trahan Jacques

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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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Felicite HEBERT married

Jacques TRAHAN-- Date: 21 October 1834 Place: Saint-Luc, Lower Canada
Jacques TRAHAN was the child of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN and Marie-Josephe THERRIEN

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Children of Jacques TRAHAN and Felicite HEBERT:

Adelaide TRAHAN (b.7 March 1840, Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada d. 19 March 1916, Weedon, Wolfe, Quebec, Canada)
m. Octave GAUDREAU 20 January 1858 in Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

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1816 Birth
17 April 1816
L'Acadie, 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

1834 Marriage / Partner
Felicite HEBERT and Jacques TRAHAN 21 October 1834, Saint-Luc, Québec, Canada

She was 18 years old.

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

1840 Birth of Child
Adelaide TRAHAN was born 7 March 1840, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

Felicite was 23 years old.

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 Marriage of Child
Adelaide TRAHAN married 20 January 1858, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada to Octave GAUDREAU

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.