Edouard LAREAU

(b. 22 March 1834 , Marieville, Rouville, Lower Canada d. 21 December 1897 , Sutton, Québec, Canada )

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Edouard LAREAU was born 22 March 1834 in Marieville, Rouville, Lower Canada

Edouard LAREAU was the child of Joseph-Michel LAREAU and Marguerite DUQUETTE

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Edouard married Marie Jeanne Genevieve AMIEL dite LUSIGNAN 22 June 1868 in Sutton, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie Jeanne Genevieve AMIEL dite LUSIGNAN was born 5 March 1852 in Dunham, Quebec, Canada. Marie Jeanne Genevieve died 31 October 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Marie Jeanne Genevieve was the child of Michel AMIEL dit LUSIGNAN and Marie-Louise OUIMET.

Edouard LAREAU died 21 December 1897 in Sutton, 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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Edouard LAREAU married

Marie Jeanne Genevieve AMIEL dite LUSIGNAN-- Date: 22 June 1868 Place: Sutton, Québec, Canada
Marie Jeanne Genevieve AMIEL dite LUSIGNAN was the child of Michel AMIEL dit LUSIGNAN and Marie-Louise OUIMET

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Children of Edouard LAREAU and Marie Jeanne Genevieve AMIEL dite LUSIGNAN:

Alphonsine-Marie-Victoria LAREAU (b.8 January 1892, Sutton, Québec, Canada d. , )
m. Joseph Arthur ANGER 25 November 1912 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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1834 Birth
22 March 1834
Marieville, Rouville, 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.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1868 Marriage / Partner
Edouard LAREAU and Marie Jeanne Genevieve AMIEL dite LUSIGNAN 22 June 1868, Sutton, Québec, Canada (Sutton Flats)

He was 34 years old.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 Birth of Child
Alphonsine-Marie-Victoria LAREAU was born 8 January 1892, Sutton, Québec, Canada (Sutton Flats)

Edouard was 57 years old.