Nicolas GUERIN

(b. 16 September 1804 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 6 March 1894 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada )

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Nicolas GUERIN was born 16 September 1804 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Nicolas GUERIN was the child of Louis GUERIN and Catherine LABERGE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis GUERIN dit LAFONTAINE and Marie-Louise-Amable RIEL (maternal) Charles LABERGE and Marie-Claire MARANDA

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

Nicolas married Anastasie RIEL 23 February 1829 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Anastasie RIEL was born 8 January 1804 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Anastasie died 19 April 1877 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Anastasie was the child of Jean-Baptiste RIEL and Cecile LANCTOT.

Nicolas GUERIN died 6 March 1894 in La Prairie, 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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Nicolas GUERIN married

Anastasie RIEL-- Date: 23 February 1829 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Anastasie RIEL was the child of Jean-Baptiste RIEL and Cecile LANCTOT

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Children of Nicolas GUERIN and Anastasie RIEL:

Marie GUERIN (b.9 December 1844, La Prairie, Canada East d. 12 May 1917, Montréal, Québec, Canada )
m. Romuald NIDING 25 February 1868 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1804 Birth
16 September 1804
La Prairie, 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)

1829 Marriage / Partner
Nicolas GUERIN and Anastasie RIEL 23 February 1829, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 24 years old.

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)

1844 Birth of Child
Marie GUERIN was born 9 December 1844, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Nicolas was 40 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1868 Marriage of Child
Marie GUERIN married 25 February 1868, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Romuald NIDING

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.