Scholastique LEGAULT

(b. 1 June 1804 , Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada d. 28 July 1872 , Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Québec, Canada )

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Scholastique LEGAULT was born 1 June 1804 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada

Scholastique LEGAULT was the child of Sebastien LEGAULT and Catherine THEORET dite LARIVIÈRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Sebastien LEGAULT dit DESLAURIERS and Eugenie TURPIN (maternal) Jacques-Amable THEORET and Catherine LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAY

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Scholastique married Paul THIBODEAU 4 August 1828 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada . Paul THIBODEAU was born 28 March 1775 in Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan). Paul died 21 August 1860 in Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Québec, Canada. Paul was the child of Jean Baptiste THIBODEAU and Archange BOUTEILLER (BOUTHILLIER) (BOUTILLIER).

Scholastique LEGAULT died 28 July 1872 in Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, 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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Paul THIBODEAU-- Date: 4 August 1828 Place: Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada
Paul THIBODEAU was the child of Jean Baptiste THIBODEAU and Archange BOUTEILLER (BOUTHILLIER) (BOUTILLIER)

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1804 Birth
1 June 1804
Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, 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
Scholastique LEGAULT and Paul THIBODEAU 4 August 1828, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

She was 24 years old.

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)

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

1860 Death of Spouse/Partner
Paul THIBODEAU died 21 August 1860, Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

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.