Athanase BOUCHARD

(b. 3 May 1806 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 12 February 1876 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada )

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Athanase BOUCHARD was born 3 May 1806 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Athanase BOUCHARD was the child of Joseph-Marie BOUCHARD and Marie-Anne TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Louis BOUCHARD and Madeleine TREMBLAY (maternal) Louis-Jacques TREMBLAY and Ursule-Sophie-Victoire SIMARD dite LOMBRET

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Athanase married Mathilde TREMBLAY 8 November 1825 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada . Mathilde TREMBLAY was born 19 November 1806 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Mathilde died 11 December 1856 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Mathilde was the child of Guillaume-Isidore TREMBLAY and Madeleine DESBIENS.

Athanase BOUCHARD died 12 February 1876 in Isle-aux-Coudres, 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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Athanase BOUCHARD married

Mathilde TREMBLAY-- Date: 8 November 1825 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Mathilde TREMBLAY was the child of Guillaume-Isidore TREMBLAY and Madeleine DESBIENS

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1806 Birth
3 May 1806
Les Éboulements, 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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Athanase BOUCHARD and Mathilde TREMBLAY 8 November 1825, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

He was 19 years old.

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.

1856 Death of Spouse/Partner
Mathilde TREMBLAY died 11 December 1856, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

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.