Joseph AUDET

(b. 4 December 1805 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 1 November 1884 , Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph AUDET was born 4 December 1805 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Joseph 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):

Joseph married Antoinette FORTIN 21 August 1827 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Antoinette FORTIN was born 18 April 1811 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Antoinette died 22 June 1850 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Antoinette was the child of Vital FORTIN and Antoinette GAGNON.

Joseph AUDET died 1 November 1884 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, 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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Joseph AUDET married

Antoinette FORTIN-- Date: 21 August 1827 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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Antoinette FORTIN was the child of Vital FORTIN and Antoinette GAGNON

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Children of Joseph AUDET and Antoinette FORTIN:

Elisabeth AUDET (b.abt. 1832, , Québec Province, Canada d. 18 December 1922, St-Côme-de-Kennebec, Canada)
m. Louis GAUTHIER 23 February 1852 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Marie-Delima AUDET dite LAPOINTE (b.25 August 1837, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Sylvestre TREMBLAY 20 January 1857 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1805 Birth
4 December 1805
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)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Joseph AUDET and Antoinette FORTIN 21 August 1827, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 21 years old.

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

1837 Birth of Child
Marie-Delima AUDET dite LAPOINTE was born 25 August 1837, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Joseph was 31 years old.

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)

1850 Death of Spouse/Partner
Antoinette FORTIN died 22 June 1850, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Marriage of Child
Elisabeth AUDET married 23 February 1852, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Louis GAUTHIER

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.

1857 Marriage of Child
Marie-Delima AUDET dite LAPOINTE married 20 January 1857, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Sylvestre TREMBLAY

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.