Zoe BRUNEL

(b. 28 March 1820 , Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada d. 23 September 1904 , Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada )

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Zoe BRUNEL was born 28 March 1820 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada

Zoe BRUNEL was the child of François BRUNEL dit BEAUFORT and Madeleine FERLAND and the grandchild of: (paternal) François BRUNEL dit BEAUFORT and Geneviève ENOUILLE (maternal) François FERLAND and Geneviève COLLIN

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

Zoe married Joseph CHAPUT dit MAURICE 26 September 1843 in Saint-Cuthbert, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph CHAPUT dit MAURICE was born abt. 1818 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Joseph died 16 August 1894 in Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada. Joseph was the child of Joseph CHAPUT and Therese CARPENTIER.

Zoe BRUNEL died 23 September 1904 in Saint-Cuthbert, 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 Zoe BRUNEL

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Zoe BRUNEL married

Joseph CHAPUT dit MAURICE-- Date: 26 September 1843 Place: Saint-Cuthbert, Canada East
Joseph CHAPUT dit MAURICE was the child of Joseph CHAPUT and Therese CARPENTIER

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Children of Joseph CHAPUT dit MAURICE and Zoe BRUNEL:

Henri CHAPUT dit MAURICE (b.17 August 1855, Saint-Cuthbert, Canada East d. 6 November 1936, Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada)
m. Marie Julienne MOREAU 16 August 1880 in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA (Forestdale) (Slatersville)

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1820 Birth
28 March 1820
Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada

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
Zoe BRUNEL and Joseph CHAPUT dit MAURICE 26 September 1843, Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada

She was 23 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.

1855 Birth of Child
Henri CHAPUT dit MAURICE was born 17 August 1855, Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada

Zoe was 35 years old.

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.

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)

1880 Marriage of Child
Henri CHAPUT dit MAURICE married 16 August 1880, North Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA (Forestdale) (Slatersville) to Marie Julienne MOREAU

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)

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