Josephte RAINVILLE

(b. 1 September 1804 , Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada d. 21 May 1870 , St-Didace de Maskinongé. Québec, Canada )

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Josephte RAINVILLE was born 1 September 1804 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada

Josephte RAINVILLE was the child of Emmanuel RAINVILLE and Marie-Charlotte BRÛLÉ and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-Ignace RAINVILLE (DERAINVILLE) and Jeanne HUS LEMOINE (maternal) Antoine BRÛLÉ and Marie-Josephte ÉTHIER

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Josephte married Jean-Chrysostome GERMAIN 16 August 1825 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Chrysostome GERMAIN was born 6 September 1804 in Donnacona, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-des-Écureuils) (Les Ecureuils). Jean-Chrysostome died 3 November 1884 in St-Didace de Maskinongé, Québec, Canada. Jean-Chrysostome was the child of Pierre-Etienne GERMAIN and Marie-Anne GODIN.

Josephte RAINVILLE died 21 May 1870 in St-Didace de Maskinongé. 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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Josephte RAINVILLE married

Jean-Chrysostome GERMAIN-- Date: 16 August 1825 Place: Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada
Jean-Chrysostome GERMAIN was the child of Pierre-Etienne GERMAIN and Marie-Anne GODIN

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Children of Jean-Chrysostome GERMAIN and Josephte RAINVILLE:

Rosalie GERMAIN (b.23 February 1835, Maskinongé, Lower Canada d. 11 November 1903, St-Charles-de-Madeville, Canada)
m. Leandre BERGERON 7 February 1855

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1804 Birth
1 September 1804
Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada

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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Josephte RAINVILLE and Jean-Chrysostome GERMAIN 16 August 1825, Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada

She was 20 years old.

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

1835 Birth of Child
Rosalie GERMAIN was born 23 February 1835, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph)

Josephte was 30 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)

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.