Eleonore DENONVILLE

(b. 7 January 1835 , Saint-Pie, Lower Canada d. abt. 1884 , Acton Vale, Québec, Canada )

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Eleonore DENONVILLE was born 7 January 1835 in Saint-Pie, Lower Canada

Eleonore DENONVILLE was the child of Jean-Baptiste DENONVILLE dit LANEUVILLE and Opportune GUY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Denis DEHORNAY dit LANEUVILLE and Elisabeth MARTIN (maternal) Germain GUY and Josephte PAYANT dite ST-ONGE

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

Eleonore married Godefroy GENDREAU 2 February 1852 in Saint-Pie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Godefroy GENDREAU was born 8 January 1827 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur). Godefroy died 26 March 1913 in St-Georges-De-Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Godefroy was the child of Laurent GENDREAU and Marie Louise ALLARD.

Eleonore DENONVILLE died abt. 1884 in Acton Vale, 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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Eleonore DENONVILLE married

Godefroy GENDREAU-- Date: 2 February 1852 Place: Saint-Pie, Canada East
Godefroy GENDREAU was the child of Laurent GENDREAU and Marie Louise ALLARD

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Children of Godefroy GENDREAU and Eleonore DENONVILLE:

Louis GENDREAU (b.11 January 1853, Saint-Pie, Canada East d. 13 March 1935, St-Georges, Beauce, Quebec, Canada)
m. Marguerite CAHILL 28 July 1880

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1835 Birth
7 January 1835
Saint-Pie, Lower Canada

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.

1852 Marriage / Partner
Eleonore DENONVILLE and Godefroy GENDREAU 2 February 1852, Saint-Pie, Québec, Canada

She was 17 years old.

1853 Birth of Child
Louis GENDREAU was born 11 January 1853, Saint-Pie, Québec, Canada

Eleonore was 18 years old.

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.