Sophie POIRIER

(b. 16 May 1835 , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 18 December 1884 , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Sophie POIRIER was born 16 May 1835 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Sophie POIRIER was the child of Charles POIRIER and Sophie LANOUE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Henri-Amable POIRIER and Isabelle BOUDREAU (maternal) Joseph-Jacques LANOUE and Anastasie DUPUIS

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Sophie married Pierre CHARBONNEAU 21 February 1854 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada East . Pierre CHARBONNEAU was born 4 December 1834 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester). Pierre died 22 February 1909 in Lamoureux, Alberta, Canada. Pierre was the child of Toussaint CHARBONNEAU and Victoire THIBAULT dite LEVEILLE.

Sophie POIRIER died 18 December 1884 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada .

m. Charbonneau Pierre

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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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Pierre CHARBONNEAU-- Date: 21 February 1854 Place: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada East
Pierre CHARBONNEAU was the child of Toussaint CHARBONNEAU and Victoire THIBAULT dite LEVEILLE

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1835 Birth
16 May 1835
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

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)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Marriage / Partner
Sophie POIRIER and Pierre CHARBONNEAU 21 February 1854, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester)

She was 18 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.