Pierre-Basile BORDUAS

(b. 13 June 1814 , La Présentation, Lower Canada d. 27 March 1882 , Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Pierre-Basile BORDUAS was born 13 June 1814 in La Présentation, Lower Canada

Pierre-Basile BORDUAS was the child of Joseph-Pierre BORDUAS and Marie-Louise JARRET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste BORDUAS and Marie GEOFFRION dite ST-JEAN (maternal) Augustin-Gilles JARRET dit BEAUREGARD and Louise MARTIN

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

Pierre-Basile married Adelaide-Eloise MEUNIER dite LAPIERRE 4 July 1843 in Verchères, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adelaide-Eloise MEUNIER dite LAPIERRE was born 22 November 1818 in La Présentation, Québec, Canada (La Presentation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge) . Adelaide-Eloise died 14 April 1900 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Adelaide-Eloise was the child of Michel MEUNIER and Marguerite PEPIN.

Pierre-Basile BORDUAS died 27 March 1882 in Saint-Charles-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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Pierre-Basile BORDUAS married

Adelaide-Eloise MEUNIER dite LAPIERRE-- Date: 4 July 1843 Place: Verchères, Canada East
Adelaide-Eloise MEUNIER dite LAPIERRE was the child of Michel MEUNIER and Marguerite PEPIN

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Children of Pierre-Basile BORDUAS and Adelaide-Eloise MEUNIER dite LAPIERRE:

François BORDUAS (b.3 December 1843, Verchères, Canada East d. , )
m. Azilda FONTAINE 12 February 1872 in Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

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1814 Birth
13 June 1814
La Présentation, 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)

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)

1843 Marriage / Partner
Pierre-Basile BORDUAS and Adelaide-Eloise MEUNIER dite LAPIERRE 4 July 1843, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

He was 29 years old.

1843 Birth of Child
François BORDUAS was born 3 December 1843, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

Pierre-Basile was 29 years old.

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.

1872 Marriage of Child
François BORDUAS married 12 February 1872, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres) to Azilda FONTAINE

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)