Marie-Esther GIASSON

(b. 1 March 1836 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. 21 August 1903 , Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Esther GIASSON was born 1 March 1836 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Marie-Esther GIASSON was the child of Marcel CHIASSON (GIASSON) and Marcelline CARON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François CHIASSON (GIASSON) and Modeste GUYON (DION) (maternal) Pierre CARON and Madeleine FORTIN

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

Marie-Esther married Nathanel-Noël DUBE 7 September 1858 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Nathanel-Noël DUBE was born 14 January 1832 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Nathanel-Noël died 8 December 1923 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Nathanel-Noël was the child of Pierre DUBE and Angélique CARON.

Marie-Esther GIASSON died 21 August 1903 in Rivière-Ouelle, 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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Marie-Esther GIASSON married

Nathanel-Noël DUBE-- Date: 7 September 1858 Place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada East
Nathanel-Noël DUBE was the child of Pierre DUBE and Angélique CARON

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Children of Nathanel-Noël DUBE and Marie-Esther GIASSON:

Joseph-Antoine DUBE (b.5 November 1869, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada d. 5 July 1907, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada )
m. Marie Adeline MARTIN 24 July 1893 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

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1836 Birth
1 March 1836
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Esther GIASSON and Nathanel-Noël DUBE 7 September 1858, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

She was 22 years old.

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.

1869 Birth of Child
Joseph-Antoine DUBE was born 5 November 1869, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

Marie-Esther was 33 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 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada