Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS

(b. 31 July 1828 , Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada d. 24 September 1904 , Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada )
Age: 76
Cause of Death: Vieillesse

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Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS was born 31 July 1828 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada

Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS was the child of Joseph-Marie BLAIS and Euphrosine BLANCHETTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre BLAIS and Marie-Josephe DESSAINT dite ST-PIERRE (maternal) Joseph-Marie BLANCHET and Euphronsine CLOUTIER

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

Hermine-Vitaline married Jacques BLAIS 27 May 1845 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jacques BLAIS was born 25 May 1816 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada . Jacques died 16 March 1897 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada. Jacques was the child of Jacques BLAIS and Elisabeth LETOURNEAU.

Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS died 24 September 1904 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS was a House Keeping.

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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Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS married

Jacques BLAIS-- Date: 27 May 1845 Place: Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Canada East
Jacques BLAIS was the child of Jacques BLAIS and Elisabeth LETOURNEAU

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Children of Jacques BLAIS and Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS:

Aglaé BLAIS (b.8 March 1858, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Canada East d. 26 September 1935, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada )
m. Cléophas GAGNON 28 January 1890 in Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud)

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1828 Birth
31 July 1828
Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada

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)

1845 Marriage / Partner
Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS and Jacques BLAIS 27 May 1845, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada

She was 16 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Aglaé BLAIS was born 8 March 1858, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud)

Hermine-Vitaline was 29 years old.

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)

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 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1890 Marriage of Child
Aglaé BLAIS married 28 January 1890, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud) to Cléophas GAGNON

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)