Augustin PREVOST

(b. August 1788 , Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada d. 15 May 1866 , La Prairie, Canada East )

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Augustin PREVOST was born August 1788 in Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada

Augustin PREVOST was the child of Alexis-Sylvio PREVOST and Marie-Josephte ST-AUBIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph PROVOST (PREVOST) and Marie-Jacques MAILLOT (maternal) Jacques ST-AUBIN and Catherine VIAU

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

Augustin married Josephte HEBERT dite LAROSE 31 January 1820 in Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte HEBERT dite LAROSE was born abt. 1795 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Josephte was the child of Francois HEBERT dit LAROSE and Marguerite MARTIN dite LADOUCEUR.

Augustin PREVOST died 15 May 1866 in La Prairie, Canada East .
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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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Augustin PREVOST married

Josephte HEBERT dite LAROSE-- Date: 31 January 1820 Place: Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Lower Canada
Josephte HEBERT dite LAROSE was the child of Francois HEBERT dit LAROSE and Marguerite MARTIN dite LADOUCEUR

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Children of Augustin PREVOST and Josephte HEBERT dite LAROSE:

Euphrosine PROVOST (b.27 January 1832, , Québec Province, Canada d. abt. 1926, )
m. Joseph COUPAL 22 July 1851 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1786 Birth
August 1788
Saint-Laurent, Montréal, 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)

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 Marriage / Partner
Augustin PREVOST and Josephte HEBERT dite LAROSE 31 January 1820 , Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, Canada

He was 31 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 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Euphrosine PROVOST was born 27 January 1832, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Augustin was 43 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

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)

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

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)