Victoire Delima "Adeline" OUELLET

(b. 15 March 1813 , La Pocatière, Lower Canada d. 5 December 1887 , Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )

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Victoire Delima "Adeline" OUELLET was born 15 March 1813 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada

Victoire Delima "Adeline" OUELLET was the child of Jean-Baptiste OUELLET and Genevieve OUELLET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-François OUELLET and Marie-Louise ROULEAU (maternal) Joseph OUELLET and Victoire DIONNE

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Victoire Delima "Adeline" married Pierre PELLETIER 25 February 1840 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada . Pierre PELLETIER was born 23 August 1804 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Pierre died 24 February 1875 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Pierre was the child of Jean-François PELLETIER and Scholastique ROY dite DESJARDINS.

Victoire Delima "Adeline" OUELLET died 5 December 1887 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada .
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Did you know that René Ouellet is likely the ancestor of all the descendants bearing the names Ouellet and Ouellette in North America? The name Ouellet(te) ranks 11th among the most common surnames in Quebec! If you're last name is Ouellet, there's a really good chance that you are directly descended from René HOÛALLET (OUELLET) and one of his two wives (Anne Rivet and Marie-Therese Mignault).

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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Pierre PELLETIER-- Date: 25 February 1840 Place: La Pocatière, Lower Canada
Pierre PELLETIER was the child of Jean-François PELLETIER and Scholastique ROY dite DESJARDINS

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1813 Birth
15 March 1813
La Pocatière, 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)

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

1840 Marriage / Partner
Victoire Delima "Adeline" OUELLET and Pierre PELLETIER 25 February 1840, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

She was 26 years old.

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.