Charles GRENIER

(b. 28 August 1796 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada d. 7 December 1878 , Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )

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Charles GRENIER was born 28 August 1796 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Charles GRENIER was the child of Jean Baptiste GRENIER and Françoise-Romaine GAGNON and the grandchild of: (maternal) Jean-Marie GAGNON and Marie-Josephte MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT)

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

Charles married Olive MERCIER 11 June 1827 in Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Olive MERCIER was born 20 June 1806 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Olive died 27 October 1879 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice). Olive was the child of Pierre MERCIER and Marie-Charlotte CHARTIER.

Charles GRENIER died 7 December 1878 in Rivière-du-Loup, 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 Charles GRENIER

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Charles GRENIER married

Olive MERCIER-- Date: 11 June 1827 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada
Olive MERCIER was the child of Pierre MERCIER and Marie-Charlotte CHARTIER

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Children of Charles GRENIER and Olive MERCIER:

Ferdinand GRENIER (b.30 January 1830, Cacouna, Lower Canada d. 15 September 1900, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )
m. Emilie GRANT 23 November 1857 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

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1796 Birth
28 August 1796
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

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

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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Charles GRENIER and Olive MERCIER 11 June 1827, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

He was 30 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 Birth of Child
Ferdinand GRENIER was born 30 January 1830, Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna)

Charles was 33 years old.

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.

1857 Marriage of Child
Ferdinand GRENIER married 23 November 1857, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice) to Emilie GRANT

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.