Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD

(b. 17 April 1788 , Yamaska, Province of Québec, Canada d. 27 August 1872 , Bonaventure, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD was born 17 April 1788 in Yamaska, Province of Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD was the child of Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD and Therese PAUL HUS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD and Therese BADAILLAC dite LAPLANTE (maternal) Pierre HUS PAUL LEMOINE and Geneviève PETIT dite BRUNEAU (BRUNO)

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

Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Geneviève PAUL HUS 13 November 1809 in Yamaska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Geneviève PAUL HUS was born 28 January 1787 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Marie-Geneviève was the child of Louis PAUL HUS and Marguerite LEBRUN.

Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD died 27 August 1872 in Bonaventure, 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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Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD married

Marie-Geneviève PAUL HUS-- Date: 13 November 1809 Place: Yamaska, Lower Canada
Marie-Geneviève PAUL HUS was the child of Louis PAUL HUS and Marguerite LEBRUN

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Children of Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD and Marie-Geneviève PAUL HUS:

Angele BROUILLARD (b.8 July 1817, St-Michel, Les Jardins-de-Napierville, Quebec, Canada d. 10 December 1902, Saint-Joachim, Montmorency, Québec, Canada)
m. Antoine JOYAL 12 August 1839 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

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1788 Birth
17 April 1788
Yamaska, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1809 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste BROUILLARD and Marie-Geneviève PAUL HUS 13 November 1809, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

He was 21 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Angele BROUILLARD was born 8 July 1817, St-Michel, Les Jardins-de-Napierville, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste was 29 years old.

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)

1839 Marriage of Child
Angele BROUILLARD married 12 August 1839, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Antoine JOYAL

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

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.