Martel PELOQUIN

(b. 3 February 1839 , Berthierville, Lower Canada d. 4 April 1881 , Québec Province, Canada )

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Martel PELOQUIN was born 3 February 1839 in Berthierville, Lower Canada

Martel PELOQUIN was the child of Olivier-Félix PELOQUIN and Esther HUS dite COURNOYER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Antoine PELOQUIN dit FELIX CREDY and Marguerite DUFAULT (maternal) Pierre HUS COURNOYER and Marie-Anne SALVAIL

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

Martel married Marie LAVALLEE 11 January 1859 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Marie LAVALLEE was born 28 July 1842 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Marie died abt. 1873 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie was the child of Narcisse LAVALLEE and Marie DELARD (DELLARD).

Martel PELOQUIN died 4 April 1881 in Québec Province, 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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Family and Children of Martel PELOQUIN

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Martel PELOQUIN married

Marie LAVALLEE-- Date: 11 January 1859 Place: Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East
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The French In North America: 1500-1783

Marie LAVALLEE was the child of Narcisse LAVALLEE and Marie DELARD (DELLARD)

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Children of Martel PELOQUIN and Marie LAVALLEE:

Marie-Sophie PELOQUIN (b.21 March 1860, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East d. 10 April 1920, Saint-Jacques, Montréal, Quebec, Canada)
m. Jean-Francois-Regis LATRAVERSE 26 August 1877 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada (Beaupre)

Martel PELOQUIN (b.5 April 1866, , Québec Province, Canada d. 20 December 1936, Cohasset, Itasca, Minnesota, USA)

Sophie-Leona PELOQUIN (b.26 December 1870, Québec, Québec, Canada d. 21 May 1926, St Jean Baptiste, Manitoba, Canada)

Marie Aurise Lumina PELOQUIN (b.12 January 1873, Danville, Quebec, Canada d. , )

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1839 Birth
3 February 1839
Berthierville, Lower Canada

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 / Partner
Martel PELOQUIN and Marie LAVALLEE 11 January 1859, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

He was 19 years old.

1859 marriage

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1860 Birth of Child
Marie-Sophie PELOQUIN was born 21 March 1860, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

Martel was 21 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
Martel PELOQUIN was born 5 April 1866, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Martel was 27 years old.

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.

1870 Birth of Child
Sophie-Leona PELOQUIN was born 26 December 1870, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Martel was 31 years old.

1873 Birth of Child
Marie Aurise Lumina PELOQUIN was born 12 January 1873, Danville, Quebec, Canada

Martel was 33 years old.

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.

1877 Marriage of Child
Marie-Sophie PELOQUIN married 26 August 1877, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada (Beaupre) to Jean-Francois-Regis LATRAVERSE

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)