Vital BOUDREAU

(b. July 1815 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 9 February 1903 , L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )

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Vital BOUDREAU was born July 1815 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Vital BOUDREAU was the child of Joseph-Marie BOUDREAU and Veronique BOUCHARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre BOUDREAU and Josephte TREMBLAY (maternal) Godefroy BOUCHARD and Charlotte TREMBLAY

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

Vital married Elmina COULOMBE 8 August 1843 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elmina COULOMBE was born 18 March 1826 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Elmina died 18 March 1892 in L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada. Elmina was the child of Israel COULOMBE and Marie-Olyphe AUDET dite LAPOINTE.

Vital BOUDREAU died 9 February 1903 in L'Anse-Saint-Jean, 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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Vital BOUDREAU married

Elmina COULOMBE-- Date: 8 August 1843 Place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

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Elmina COULOMBE was the child of Israel COULOMBE and Marie-Olyphe AUDET dite LAPOINTE

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Children of Vital BOUDREAU and Elmina COULOMBE:

Marie BOUDREAU (b.12 December 1846, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 3 December 1874, L'Anse Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada)
m. Louis-Allen DALLAIRE 3 March 1862

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1815 Birth
July 1815
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)

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)

1843 Marriage / Partner
Vital BOUDREAU and Elmina COULOMBE 8 August 1843, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 28 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1846 Birth of Child
Marie BOUDREAU was born 12 December 1846, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Vital was 31 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)

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.