Cajetan SAULNIER

(b. 6 January 1809 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 21 July 1895 , Hebertville, Canada )

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Cajetan SAULNIER was born 6 January 1809 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Cajetan SAULNIER was the child of Jean-Baptiste SAULNIER and Marie LAFOREST dite LABRANCHE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre SAULNIER and Marie-Josephte LAVOIE (maternal) David LAFOREST dit LABRANCHE and Marie-Madeleine TREMBLAY

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Cajetan married Marcelline BLUTEAU 15 October 1833 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marcelline BLUTEAU was born 7 November 1814 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière). Marcelline died 10 October 1888 in Hebertville, Canada. Marcelline was the child of Pierre BLUTEAU and Agathe SIMARD.

Cajetan SAULNIER died 21 July 1895 in Hebertville, 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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Cajetan SAULNIER married

Marcelline BLUTEAU-- Date: 15 October 1833 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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Marcelline BLUTEAU was the child of Pierre BLUTEAU and Agathe SIMARD

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Children of Cajetan SAULNIER and Marcelline BLUTEAU:

Olive SAULNIER (b.19 March 1848, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 10 September 1913, Rimouski, Québec, Canada )
m. Charles TREMBLAY 9 April 1866 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre)

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1809 Birth
6 January 1809
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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)

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

1833 Marriage / Partner
Cajetan SAULNIER and Marcelline BLUTEAU 15 October 1833, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 24 years old.

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)

1848 Birth of Child
Olive SAULNIER was born 19 March 1848, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Cajetan was 39 years old.

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

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Marriage of Child
Olive SAULNIER married 9 April 1866, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre) to Charles TREMBLAY

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.