Amable-Regis SAMSON

(b. abt. 1786 , Québec Province, Canada d. 23 September 1871 , Montréal, Québec, Canada )

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Amable-Regis SAMSON was born abt. 1786 in Québec Province, Canada

Amable-Regis SAMSON was the child of Ignace SAMSON and Josephte VALLERAND and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Jacques SAMSON and Elisabeth PROVOST (maternal) Jacques VALLERAND and Catherine GEORGET

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Amable-Regis married Marie-Angélique NIEDING 24 August 1812 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Angélique NIEDING was born 11 July 1788 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Marie-Angélique died 23 May 1855 in Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay) . Marie-Angélique was the child of Caspar-Gerhardt NIEDING and Marie-Angélique GAGNÉ dite D'AUBURGEON.

Amable-Regis SAMSON died 23 September 1871 in Montréal, 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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Amable-Regis SAMSON married

Marie-Angélique NIEDING-- Date: 24 August 1812 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
Marie-Angélique NIEDING was the child of Caspar-Gerhardt NIEDING and Marie-Angélique GAGNÉ dite D'AUBURGEON

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Children of Amable-Regis SAMSON and Marie-Angélique NIEDING:

Emilie SAMSON (b.11 July 1813, Île-Perrot, Lower Canada d. , )

Mathilde SAMSON (b.2 July 1819, Châteauguay, Lower Canada d. , )

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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)

1812 Marriage / Partner
Amable-Regis SAMSON and Marie-Angélique NIEDING 24 August 1812, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

1813 Birth of Child
Emilie SAMSON was born 11 July 1813, Île-Perrot, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal)

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.

1819 Birth of Child
Mathilde SAMSON was born 2 July 1819, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

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

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.

1855 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Angélique NIEDING died 23 May 1855, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

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.