Joseph
LAFOREST
(b.
12 September 1784
,
Baie-Saint-Paul, Province of Québec, Canada
d.
1 June 1869
,
St-Alexis-de-la-Grande-Baie, Canada
)
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Joseph LAFOREST was born 12 September 1784 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Province of Québec, Canada
Joseph LAFOREST was the child of David LAFOREST dit LABRANCHE and Marie-Madeleine TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste LAFOREST dit LABRANCHE and Marguerite BONNEAU dite LABÉCASSE (maternal) François TREMBLAY and Marie-Madeleine PERRONJoseph LAFOREST died 1 June 1869 in St-Alexis-de-la-Grande-Baie, Canada.
m. Adelaide Simard
9 octobre 1810
Baie Saint-Paul, Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec
Canada
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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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1784 Birth 12 September 1784
Baie-Saint-Paul, Province of Québec, Canada
1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada1818 - 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 England1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England1841 - 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)
1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.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.
1869 Death 1 June 1869
St-Alexis-de-la-Grande-Baie, Canada
He died at the age of 84.
Added: 12/14/2023 10:56:56 PM
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