Jacques DELISLE

(b. 4 May 1811 , Neuville, Portneuf, Lower Canada d. 19 January 1891 , Donnacona, Québec, Canada )

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Jacques DELISLE was born 4 May 1811 in Neuville, Portneuf, Lower Canada

Jacques DELISLE was the child of Jacques DELISLE and Madeleine PAGE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques DELISLE and Elisabeth FISET (maternal) Jean-Baptiste PAGE and Clothilde DUSSAULT

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

Jacques married Françoise LEVEILLE 21 January 1834 in Donnacona, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Françoise LEVEILLE was born 5 September 1808 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales). Françoise was the child of Jean-Baptiste LEVEILLE and Marie-Angelique GERMAIN.

Jacques DELISLE died 19 January 1891 in Donnacona, 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 Jacques DELISLE

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Jacques DELISLE married

Françoise LEVEILLE-- Date: 21 January 1834 Place: Donnacona, Lower Canada
Françoise LEVEILLE was the child of Jean-Baptiste LEVEILLE and Marie-Angelique GERMAIN

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Children of Jacques DELISLE and Françoise LEVEILLE:

Malvina DELISLE (b.24 March 1845, Donnacona, Canada East d. , )
m. Pierre-Noe ST-GERMAIN dit FÈLCHE 22 January 1872 in Donnacona, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-des-Écureuils) (Les Ecureuils)

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1811 Birth
4 May 1811
Neuville, Portneuf, 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

1834 Marriage / Partner
Jacques DELISLE and Françoise LEVEILLE 21 January 1834, Donnacona, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-des-Écureuils) (Les Ecureuils)

He was 22 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)

1845 Birth of Child
Malvina DELISLE was born 24 March 1845, Donnacona, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-des-Écureuils) (Les Ecureuils)

Jacques was 33 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 - 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
Malvina DELISLE married 22 January 1872, Donnacona, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-des-Écureuils) (Les Ecureuils) to Pierre-Noe ST-GERMAIN dit FÈLCHE

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)