Jean-Baptiste BLAIN

(b. 4 August 1791 , Varennes, Lower Canada d. 5 June 1881 , Napierville, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste BLAIN was born 4 August 1791 in Varennes, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste BLAIN was the child of Herman-Armand BLAIN and Marie-Catherine-Reine ALBERT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis-Herman BLAIN and Josephte PETIT dite CHAUVIN (maternal) Pierre ALBERT and Elisabeth RENAUD

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

Jean-Baptiste married Charlotte AUBERTIN 10 February 1817 in Boucherville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Charlotte AUBERTIN was born 29 September 1798 in Boucherville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville). Charlotte died 2 January 1883 in Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard). Charlotte was the child of Charles AUBERTIN and Louise HUET dite DULUDE.

Jean-Baptiste BLAIN died 5 June 1881 in Napierville, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Jean-Baptiste BLAIN was a Menuisier (furniture maker).
The menuisier, or joiner, was an artisan who built things by joining pieces of wood, particularly lighter and more ornamental work than that done by a carpenter. He was primarily responsible for the manufacture of small works, as opposed to large works. The joiner made small wooden works, furniture and other objects intended for domestic use (doors, tables, cabinets, etc.). His main tools were the plane, the galley, the grooving/plow plane, the handsaw and the mallet.
Source: tfcq.ca

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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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Family and Children of Jean-Baptiste BLAIN

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Jean-Baptiste BLAIN married

Charlotte AUBERTIN-- Date: 10 February 1817 Place: Boucherville, Lower Canada
Charlotte AUBERTIN was the child of Charles AUBERTIN and Louise HUET dite DULUDE

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Children of Jean-Baptiste BLAIN and Charlotte AUBERTIN:

Norbert BLAIN (b.abt. 1837, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Marie-Philomene NIDING 25 November 1859 in Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

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1791 Birth
4 August 1791
Varennes, Lower Canada

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

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

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

1817 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste BLAIN and Charlotte AUBERTIN 10 February 1817, Boucherville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville)

He was 25 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)

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

1859 Marriage of Child
Norbert BLAIN married 25 November 1859, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada to Marie-Philomene NIDING

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.