Firmin PELLETIER

(b. 19 July 1794 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada d. 1 April 1873 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada )

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Firmin PELLETIER was born 19 July 1794 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Firmin PELLETIER was the child of Jean-François-Charles PELLETIER and Victoire PELLETIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel-Jacques PELLETIER and Marie-Anne-Madeleine ROY dite DESJARDINS LAUZIER (maternal) Jean-Bernard PELLETIER and Anne-Josephte CARON

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

Firmin married Adeline MORIN 24 February 1829 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adeline MORIN was born 10 August 1808 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Adeline died 15 March 1886 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Adeline was the child of Henri MORIN and Perpetue CARON.

Firmin PELLETIER died 1 April 1873 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, 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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Family and Children of Firmin PELLETIER

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Firmin PELLETIER married

Adeline MORIN-- Date: 24 February 1829 Place: Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada
Adeline MORIN was the child of Henri MORIN and Perpetue CARON

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Children of Firmin PELLETIER and Adeline MORIN:

Aurelia PELLETIER (b.abt. 1831, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Joseph L'ETOILE L'ITALIEN 1 July 1853 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

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1794 Birth
19 July 1794
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

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 - 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)

1829 Marriage / Partner
Firmin PELLETIER and Adeline MORIN 24 February 1829, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

He was 34 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

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.

1853 Marriage of Child
Aurelia PELLETIER married 1 July 1853 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada to Joseph L'ETOILE L'ITALIEN

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.