Joseph-Michel MENARD

(b. 28 December 1803 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 29 January 1874 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph-Michel MENARD was born 28 December 1803 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Joseph-Michel MENARD was the child of Michel MENARD and Marie-Barbe POISSANT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph MENARD and Marie-Angélique BERGEVIN (maternal) Jacques-Marie POISSANT and Marie-Barbe BOURDEAU

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Joseph-Michel married Marie-Geneviève GUERIN 5 March 1821 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Geneviève GUERIN was born 29 December 1802 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Marie-Geneviève died 3 July 1881 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Marie-Geneviève was the child of Jean-Louis GUERIN and Françoise GIROUX.

Joseph-Michel MENARD died 29 January 1874 in La Prairie, 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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Joseph-Michel MENARD married

Marie-Geneviève GUERIN-- Date: 5 March 1821 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Marie-Geneviève GUERIN was the child of Jean-Louis GUERIN and Françoise GIROUX

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Children of Joseph-Michel MENARD and Marie-Geneviève GUERIN:

Olivier-Moise MENARD (b.27 March 1828, La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 28 February 1894, La Prairie, Québec, Canada )
m. Adelaide DENEAU 29 February 1848 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1803 Birth
28 December 1803
La Prairie, 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

1821 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-Michel MENARD and Marie-Geneviève GUERIN 5 March 1821, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 17 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Olivier-Moise MENARD was born 27 March 1828, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Joseph-Michel 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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Olivier-Moise MENARD married 29 February 1848, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Adelaide DENEAU

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)

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.