Firmin DUMAIS

(b. 27 April 1810 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 26 November 1869 , Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada )

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Firmin DUMAIS was born 27 April 1810 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Firmin DUMAIS was the child of Pierre DUMAY (DUMAIS) and Angelique PLOURDE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre ROSSIGNOL dit DUMAY (DUMAIS) and Marie-Catherine MICHAUD (maternal) Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE and Marie-Anne HUDON dite BEAULIEU

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

Firmin married Nathalie-Vitaline DIONNE 23 January 1833 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Nathalie-Vitaline DIONNE was born 20 December 1814 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Nathalie-Vitaline died 22 February 1899 in Saint-Philippe-de-Néri, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada. Nathalie-Vitaline was the child of Alexandre DIONNE and Felicite PELLETIER.

Firmin DUMAIS died 26 November 1869 in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, 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
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1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
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Family and Children of Firmin DUMAIS

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Firmin DUMAIS married

Nathalie-Vitaline DIONNE-- Date: 23 January 1833 Place: Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada
Nathalie-Vitaline DIONNE was the child of Alexandre DIONNE and Felicite PELLETIER

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Children of Firmin DUMAIS and Nathalie-Vitaline DIONNE:

Virginie DUMAIS (b.10 December 1835, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Lower Canada d. 16 January 1900, Saint-Germain, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada)
m. Edouard PELLETIER 2 September 1862 in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

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1810 Birth
27 April 1810
Kamouraska, 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

1833 Marriage / Partner
Firmin DUMAIS and Nathalie-Vitaline DIONNE 23 January 1833, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

He was 22 years old.

1835 Birth of Child
Virginie DUMAIS was born 10 December 1835, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

Firmin was 25 years old.

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

1862 Marriage of Child
Virginie DUMAIS married 2 September 1862, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada to Edouard PELLETIER

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.