Joseph-Marie BELANGER

(b. 4 April 1797 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada d. 22 November 1884 , Kamouraska, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph-Marie BELANGER was born 4 April 1797 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Joseph-Marie BELANGER was the child of Pierre BELANGER and Marthe TALBOT dite GERVAIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Ignace BÉLANGER and Geneviève GAGNÉ (maternal) Pierre TALBOT dit GERVAIS and Marie-Marthe PELLETIER

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Joseph-Marie married Basilisse DUFOUR 12 June 1820 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Basilisse DUFOUR was born 29 March 1801 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Basilisse died 29 June 1885 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Basilisse was the child of Pierre DUFOUR and Marie-Josephe AUDET dite LAPOINTE.

Joseph-Marie BELANGER died 22 November 1884 in Kamouraska, 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
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Joseph-Marie BELANGER married

Basilisse DUFOUR-- Date: 12 June 1820 Place: Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

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Basilisse DUFOUR was the child of Pierre DUFOUR and Marie-Josephe AUDET dite LAPOINTE

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Children of Joseph-Marie BELANGER and Basilisse DUFOUR:

Arthemise BELANGER (b.April 1842, , Québec Province, Canada d. 5 October 1908, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada )
m. Prospere PELLETIER 30 October 1865 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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1797 Birth
4 April 1797
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, 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 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-Marie BELANGER and Basilisse DUFOUR 12 June 1820, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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

1842 Birth of Child
Arthemise BELANGER was born April 1842, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Joseph-Marie was 45 years old.

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)

1865 Marriage of Child
Arthemise BELANGER married 30 October 1865, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre) to Prospere PELLETIER

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.