Boniface AUDET

(b. 3 October 1790 , Les Éboulements, Province of Québec, Canada d. 15 September 1881 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Boniface AUDET was born 3 October 1790 in Les Éboulements, Province of Québec, Canada

Boniface AUDET was the child of Barthelemy AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Procule TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Barthelemy AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Madeleine TREMBLAY (maternal) Louis-Roch-Augustin TREMBLAY and Constance-Ursule-Dorothée SIMARD

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

Boniface married Françoise RATTÉ 24 January 1815 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Françoise RATTÉ was born 1 August 1794 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Françoise died 13 January 1866 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Françoise was the child of Basile RATTÉ (RATE) and Marie-Anne SIMARD.

Boniface AUDET died 15 September 1881 in Les Éboulements, 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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Boniface AUDET married

Françoise RATTÉ-- Date: 24 January 1815 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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Françoise RATTÉ was the child of Basile RATTÉ (RATE) and Marie-Anne SIMARD

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Children of Boniface AUDET and Françoise RATTÉ:

Francoise AUDET dite LAPOINTE (b.8 July 1816, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 3 July 1898, Saint-Félicien, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )
m. Auguste TREMBLAY 1 February 1842 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE (b.11 September 1817, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 1 August 1880, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )
m. Seraphine BOUCHARD 11 February 1840 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Thiburce AUDET dit LAPOINTE (b.8 January 1833, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 13 March 1906, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )
m. Hermine TREMBLAY 30 January 1855 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1790 Birth
3 October 1790
Les Éboulements, 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)

1815 Marriage / Partner
Boniface AUDET and Françoise RATTÉ 24 January 1815, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 24 years old.

1816 Birth of Child
Francoise AUDET dite LAPOINTE was born 8 July 1816, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Boniface was 25 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 11 September 1817, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Boniface was 26 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Thiburce AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 8 January 1833, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Boniface was 42 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

1840 Marriage of Child
Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE married 11 February 1840, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Seraphine BOUCHARD

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1842 Marriage of Child
Francoise AUDET dite LAPOINTE married 1 February 1842, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Auguste TREMBLAY

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.

1855 Marriage of Child
Thiburce AUDET dit LAPOINTE married 30 January 1855, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Hermine TREMBLAY

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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Françoise RATTÉ died 13 January 1866, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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.

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 - 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)

1880 Death of Child
Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 1 August 1880, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Boniface was 89 years old.

1881 Death
15 September 1881
Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 91.

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