Octave PETIT

(b. 3 September 1815 , Beloeil, Lower Canada d. 17 May 1870 , Beloeil, Québec, Canada )
Age: 55

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Octave PETIT was born 3 September 1815 in Beloeil, Lower Canada

Octave PETIT was the child of François PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN and Marianne (Marie Anne) LAMBERT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Paul PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN and Charlotte DANSEREAU (maternal) Pierre LAMBERT dit HÉBERT and Monique BEAUDREAU (BAUDREAU) GRAVELINE

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

Octave married Sophie LAMBERT 7 November 1837 in Beloeil, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Sophie LAMBERT was born 9 January 1817 in Beloeil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil). Sophie died 16 October 1901 in Beloeil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil). Sophie was the child of Joseph HÉBERT dit LAMBERT and Madeleine BRODEUR dite LAVIGNE.

Octave PETIT died 17 May 1870 in Beloeil, 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 Octave PETIT

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Octave PETIT married

Sophie LAMBERT-- Date: 7 November 1837 Place: Beloeil, Lower Canada
Sophie LAMBERT was the child of Joseph HÉBERT dit LAMBERT and Madeleine BRODEUR dite LAVIGNE

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Children of Octave PETIT and Sophie LAMBERT:

Sophie PETIT dite BEAUCHEMIN (b.abt. 1840, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Frédéric PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN (b.abt. 1843, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Octavie BEAUCHEMIN (b.7 January 1846, , Québec Province, Canada d. abt. 1916, Beloeil, Québec, Canada )
m. David PREFONTAINE 22 May 1888 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

Emma PETIT dite BEAUCHEMIN (b.abt. 1851, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Elie PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN (b.abt. 1854, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Euclide PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN (b.24 July 1855, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Emery PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN (b.abt. 1861, Beloeil, Canada East d. 4 April 1941, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada )

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1815 Birth
3 September 1815
Beloeil, 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

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 Marriage / Partner
Octave PETIT and Sophie LAMBERT 7 November 1837, Beloeil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil)

He was 22 years old.

Beauchemin (Petit), Octave

À Belœil en 1837 et à Chambly en 1840.

Il a épousé Sophie Lambert à Belœil en 1837.

Père de Philomène (1838), Sophie (1840), Frédéric (1843), Octavie (1846), Emma (1849), Euclide (1853), Élie (1858), Joseph-Alfred (1860) et Éméry (1861).

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)

1846 Birth of Child
Octavie BEAUCHEMIN was born 7 January 1846, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Octave was 30 years old.

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.

1855 Birth of Child
Euclide PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN was born 24 July 1855, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Octave was 39 years old.

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.