Genevieve PHANEUF

(b. 10 September 1804 , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 5 March 1880 , Essex, Ontario, Canada )

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Genevieve PHANEUF was born 10 September 1804 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Genevieve PHANEUF was the child of Joseph PHANEUF and Genevieve TRAHAN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Paul PHANEUF and Marie-Louise GAUTHIER (maternal) Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN and Marie Angelique Madeleine CLOUATRE

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

Genevieve married François-Xavier LANOUE 27 September 1824 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François-Xavier LANOUE was born 21 July 1801 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). François-Xavier was the child of Pierre LANOUE and Suzanne BRAULT.

Genevieve PHANEUF died 5 March 1880 in Essex, Ontario, 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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Genevieve PHANEUF married

François-Xavier LANOUE-- Date: 27 September 1824 Place: Saint-Constant, Lower Canada
François-Xavier LANOUE was the child of Pierre LANOUE and Suzanne BRAULT

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Children of François-Xavier LANOUE and Genevieve PHANEUF:

François "Francis" Joseph Arthur LANOUE (b.10 October 1838, St. Pierre, Kent, Upper Canada d. 29 December 1908, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Julienne MARCHAND 4 May 1869

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1804 Birth
10 September 1804
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Genevieve PHANEUF and François-Xavier LANOUE 27 September 1824, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

She was 20 years old.

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

1838 Birth of Child
François "Francis" Joseph Arthur LANOUE was born 10 October 1838, St. Pierre, Kent, Ontario, Canada

Genevieve was 34 years old.

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

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.