Paul SOREL

(b. 19 January 1800 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 21 October 1889 , L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada )

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Paul SOREL was born 19 January 1800 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Paul SOREL was the child of Jacques SOREL and Catherine PROVOST (PREVOST) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste SOREL dit LANDRENAULT and Marie-Françoise RAYMOND dite TOULOUSE (maternal) Raphaël PROVOST (PREVOST) and Ursule DENEAU (DENIAU) dite DETAILLY

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

Paul married Marie-Reine POISSANT . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Reine POISSANT was born 12 December 1805 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Reine died abt. 1881 in L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada. Marie-Reine was the child of Dominque POISSANT and Marie-Reine LESTAGE.

Paul SOREL died 21 October 1889 in L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, 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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Paul SOREL married

Marie-Reine POISSANT-- Place:
Marie-Reine POISSANT was the child of Dominque POISSANT and Marie-Reine LESTAGE

Children of Paul SOREL and Marie-Reine POISSANT:

Marie-Reine SOREL (b.19 July 1824, La Prairie, Lower Canada d. abt. 1859, , Québec Province, Canada )
m. Theophile (Tuffield) PEROT 8 November 1841 in , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

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1800 Birth
19 January 1800
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)

1824 Birth of Child
Marie-Reine SOREL was born 19 July 1824, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Paul was 24 years old.

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 - 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

1841 Marriage of Child
Marie-Reine SOREL married 8 November 1841, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Theophile (Tuffield) PEROT

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.