Jean-Baptiste BRUNET

(b. 4 July 1787 , Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada d. 27 July 1878 , Ste-Marthe, Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste BRUNET was born 4 July 1787 in Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste BRUNET was the child of Jean-Pascal BRUNET dit LETANG and Marie DEGUIRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel BRUNET dit LETANG and Marie-Anne LAMADELEINE dite LADOUCEUR (maternal) Pierre DEGUIRE dit LAROSE and Françoise GROULX

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

Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Rose BEDARD 26 September 1814 in Les Cèdres, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Rose BEDARD was born abt. 1794 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Rose was the child of Jean-Baptiste BEDARD and Marie-Rose SAGALA.

Jean-Baptiste BRUNET died 27 July 1878 in Ste-Marthe, Vaudreuil, 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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Jean-Baptiste BRUNET married

Marie-Rose BEDARD-- Date: 26 September 1814 Place: Les Cèdres, Lower Canada
Marie-Rose BEDARD was the child of Jean-Baptiste BEDARD and Marie-Rose SAGALA

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Children of Jean-Baptiste BRUNET and Marie-Rose BEDARD:

Adelaide BRUNET dite LETANG (b.26 July 1822, Rigaud, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Joseph CLEMENT 26 November 1844 in Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud)

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1787 Birth
4 July 1787
Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1814 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste BRUNET and Marie-Rose BEDARD 26 September 1814, Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres)

He was 27 years old.

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

1822 Birth of Child
Adelaide BRUNET dite LETANG was born 26 July 1822, Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud)

Jean-Baptiste was 35 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)

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)

1844 Marriage of Child
Adelaide BRUNET dite LETANG married 26 November 1844, Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud) to Joseph CLEMENT

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

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.