Jean-Baptiste-Christophe PREFONTAINE

(b. 30 August 1817 , Beloeil, Lower Canada d. 5 May 1877 , Chambly, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste-Christophe PREFONTAINE was born 30 August 1817 in Beloeil, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste-Christophe PREFONTAINE was the child of Joseph FOURNIER dit PRÉFONTAINE and Angélique BEAUDRY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph FOURNIER dit PREFONTAINE and Angélique BRODEUR (maternal) Joseph-Louis BEAUDRY and Archange BRODEUR dite LAVIGNE

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Jean-Baptiste-Christophe married Françoise CHICOINE 24 January 1842 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Canada East . Françoise CHICOINE was born abt. 1820 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Françoise was the child of Augustin CHICOINE and Marie-Louise PAQUET.

Jean-Baptiste-Christophe PREFONTAINE died 5 May 1877 in Chambly, Québec, Canada .

m. Chicoine Francoise

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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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Françoise CHICOINE-- Date: 24 January 1842 Place: Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Canada East
Françoise CHICOINE was the child of Augustin CHICOINE and Marie-Louise PAQUET

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1817 Birth
30 August 1817
Beloeil, Lower Canada

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 - 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

1842 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste-Christophe PREFONTAINE and Françoise CHICOINE 24 January 1842, Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

He was 24 years old.

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.