Ursule TARDIF

(b. 17 March 1809 , Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada d. 21 April 1872 , St-Ephrem, Beauce, Quebec, Canada )

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Ursule TARDIF was born 17 March 1809 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada

Ursule TARDIF was the child of Ignace TARDIF and Marguerite JACQUES dite PIERRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre TARDIF and Geneviève GUAY (maternal) Augustin JACQUES dit PIERRE and Marguerite BOURBEAU

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

Ursule married Casimir GROLEAU 25 November 1828 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Casimir GROLEAU was born 3 March 1809 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada. Casimir died 3 December 1864 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada. Casimir was the child of Joseph GROLEAU and Angelique POULIN.

Ursule TARDIF died 21 April 1872 in St-Ephrem, Beauce, Quebec, 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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Ursule TARDIF married

Casimir GROLEAU-- Date: 25 November 1828 Place: Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada
Casimir GROLEAU was the child of Joseph GROLEAU and Angelique POULIN

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Children of Casimir GROLEAU and Ursule TARDIF:

Olympe GROLEAU (b.29 August 1829, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada d. 30 October 1901, St-Victor-de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada)
m. Abraham POULIN 25 July 1848 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

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1809 Birth
17 March 1809
Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, 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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Ursule TARDIF and Casimir GROLEAU 25 November 1828, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

She was 19 years old.

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

1829 Birth of Child
Olympe GROLEAU was born 29 August 1829, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

Ursule was 20 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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Olympe GROLEAU married 25 July 1848, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada to Abraham POULIN

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)

1864 Death of Spouse/Partner
Casimir GROLEAU died 3 December 1864, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

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.