Andre PRÉFONTAINE

(b. 14 January 1822 , Beloeil, Lower Canada d. 20 October 1889 , Roxton Falls, Québec, Canada )

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Andre PRÉFONTAINE was born 14 January 1822 in Beloeil, Lower Canada

Andre PRÉFONTAINE 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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Andre married Marie Louise JANOT dite LACHAPELLE 27 September 1842 in Québec Province, Canada . Marie Louise JANOT dite LACHAPELLE was born 1 February 1821 in Saint-Marc-de-Cournoyer, Canada. Marie Louise died 31 December 1883 in Roxton Falls, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Roxton). Marie Louise was the child of Joseph JANOT dit LACHAPELLE and Charlotte MARCIL.

Andre PRÉFONTAINE died 20 October 1889 in Roxton Falls, Québec, Canada .

m. Janot Marie-Louise

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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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Marie Louise JANOT dite LACHAPELLE-- Date: 27 September 1842 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
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1822 Birth
14 January 1822
Beloeil, Lower Canada

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
Andre PRÉFONTAINE and Marie Louise JANOT dite LACHAPELLE 27 September 1842, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

He was 20 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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1883 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie Louise JANOT dite LACHAPELLE died 31 December 1883, Roxton Falls, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Roxton)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 Death
20 October 1889
Roxton Falls, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 67.

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