Antoine-Olivier BERTHELET

(b. 25 May 1798 , Montréal, Lower Canada d. 25 September 1872 , Montréal, Québec, Canada )

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Antoine-Olivier BERTHELET was born 25 May 1798 in Montréal, Lower Canada

Antoine-Olivier BERTHELET was the child of Pierre BERTHELET and Marie-Marguerite VIGER and the grandchild of: (paternal) François BERTHELET and Jeanne-Anne BOULARD (maternal) François VIGER and Marie-Josephe CHENIER

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Antoine-Olivier married Marie-Josephte-Charlotte GUY 21 October 1851 in Montréal, Canada East . Marie-Josephte-Charlotte GUY was born 26 November 1798 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Josephte-Charlotte died 22 October 1872 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marie-Josephte-Charlotte was the child of Louis GUY and Josephte CUROTTE (CUROT).

Antoine-Olivier BERTHELET died 25 September 1872 in Montréal, Québec, Canada .

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Occupation

Antoine-Olivier BERTHELET was a Marchand.
A marchand, or merchant, was a trader who sold a specific type of merchandise or product. Merchants handled most of the supply and distribution of products that came from Europe.
Source: tfcq.ca

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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.
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Antoine-Olivier BERTHELET married

Marie-Josephte-Charlotte GUY-- Date: 21 October 1851 Place: Montréal, Canada East
Marie-Josephte-Charlotte GUY was the child of Louis GUY and Josephte CUROTTE (CUROT)

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1798 Birth
25 May 1798
Montréal, Lower Canada

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

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)

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)

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)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Antoine-Olivier BERTHELET and Marie-Josephte-Charlotte GUY 21 October 1851, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

He was 53 years old.

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.