Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET

(b. 28 July 1794 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 31 July 1869 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET was born 28 July 1794 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET was the child of Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET and Marie-Madeleine CHOQUET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre BOUSQUET and Anne-Louise GUYON (maternal) Jean-Baptiste CHOQUET and Marie-Madeleine BRODEUR dite LAVIGNE

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Jean-Baptiste married Geneviève PHANEUF 29 September 1817 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Geneviève PHANEUF was born 11 November 1798 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Geneviève died 5 May 1881 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Geneviève was the child of Claude-François PHANEUF and Josephte NOËL dite LABONTÉ.

Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET died 31 July 1869 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, 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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Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET married

Geneviève PHANEUF-- Date: 29 September 1817 Place: Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada
Geneviève PHANEUF was the child of Claude-François PHANEUF and Josephte NOËL dite LABONTÉ

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Children of Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET and Geneviève PHANEUF:

Marguerite BOUSQUET (b.23 April 1823, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 10 February 1898, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada)
m. Pierre-Germain PHANEUF 12 October 1869 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

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1794 Birth
28 July 1794
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

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

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste BOUSQUET and Geneviève PHANEUF 29 September 1817 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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

1823 Birth of Child
Marguerite BOUSQUET was born 23 April 1823, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste was 28 years old.

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

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.