Antoine COUPAL

(b. 17 July 1790 , L'Acadie, Province of Québec, Canada d. 2 August 1875 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada )

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Antoine COUPAL was born 17 July 1790 in L'Acadie, Province of Québec, Canada

Antoine COUPAL was the child of Joseph COUPAL dit LA REINE and Marie JOURDANAIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Antoine COUPAL and Marie-Louise PALIN dite DABONVILLE (maternal) Pierre JOURDANAIS and Marie-Louise CHARLAND

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

Antoine married Catherine LAVALLEE 8 August 1808 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Catherine LAVALLEE was born abt. 1788 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Catherine died 16 February 1860 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada. Catherine was the child of François LAVALLÉE dit PAQUET and Marie-Geneviève MERJACQUES.

Antoine COUPAL died 2 August 1875 in La Prairie, 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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Antoine COUPAL married

Catherine LAVALLEE-- Date: 8 August 1808 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
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Catherine LAVALLEE was the child of François LAVALLÉE dit PAQUET and Marie-Geneviève MERJACQUES

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Children of Antoine COUPAL and Catherine LAVALLEE:

Marguerite COUPAL (b.30 May 1819, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Joseph MAILLE 22 February 1841 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Joseph COUPAL (b.26 January 1830, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 20 August 1883, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada)
m. Euphrosine PROVOST 22 July 1851 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1790 Birth
17 July 1790
L'Acadie, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1808 Marriage / Partner
Antoine COUPAL and Catherine LAVALLEE 8 August 1808 , L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

He was 18 years old.

1808 marriage

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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.

1819 Birth of Child
Marguerite COUPAL was born 30 May 1819, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Antoine was 28 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Joseph COUPAL was born 26 January 1830, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Antoine was 39 years old.

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
Marguerite COUPAL married 22 February 1841, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada to Joseph MAILLE

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 of Child
Joseph COUPAL married 22 July 1851 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Euphrosine PROVOST

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

1860 Death of Spouse/Partner
Catherine LAVALLEE died 16 February 1860, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

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.