Cecile CROTEAU

(b. 25 February 1785 , Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Province of Québec, Canada d. 6 October 1870 , St-Christophe, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada )

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Cecile CROTEAU was born 25 February 1785 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Province of Québec, Canada

Cecile CROTEAU was the child of Jacques CROTEAU and Marie-Josephte LAINE (LAISNE) dite LALIBERTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques CROTEAU and Marie-Charlotte DUPONT (maternal) Jean-Baptiste LAINE (LAISNE) and Josephte-Augustine GINGRAS

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

Cecile married Michel BILODEAU 17 April 1809 in Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Michel BILODEAU was born 13 October 1777 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada . Michel died 28 March 1857 in St-Nicolas, Bernières, Quebec, Canada. Michel was the child of Michel-Dominique BILODEAU and Marie-Anne CARBONNEAU.

Cecile CROTEAU died 6 October 1870 in St-Christophe, Arthabaska, Quebec, 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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Cecile CROTEAU married

Michel BILODEAU-- Date: 17 April 1809 Place: Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Lower Canada

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Michel BILODEAU was the child of Michel-Dominique BILODEAU and Marie-Anne CARBONNEAU

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Children of Michel BILODEAU and Cecile CROTEAU:

Louis-Antoine BILODEAU (b.30 December 1820, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Lower Canada d. 4 October 1891, )
m. Marie ROUX dite SANSCHAGRIN 23 August 1842

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1785 Birth
25 February 1785
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, 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
Cecile CROTEAU and Michel BILODEAU 17 April 1809, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada

She was 24 years old.

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

1820 Birth of Child
Louis-Antoine BILODEAU was born 30 December 1820, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada

Cecile was 35 years old.

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.

1857 Death of Spouse/Partner
Michel BILODEAU died 28 March 1857, St-Nicolas, Bernières, Quebec, 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.