Jean MORIN

(b. 30 October 1793 , La Pocatière, Lower Canada d. 19 July 1873 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )

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Jean MORIN was born 30 October 1793 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada

Jean MORIN was the child of Jean-Marie MORIN and Judith LOMBARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Basile MORIN and Marie-Anne-Josephe SIROIS dite DUPLESSIS (maternal) Pierre LOMBARD and Marie-Josephe BOURGELAS

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Jean married Cecile AUDET dite LAPOINTE 21 June 1825 in Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Cecile AUDET dite LAPOINTE was born 27 November 1801 in Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean). Cecile died 12 May 1881 in Saint-Dominique, Québec, Canada . Cecile was the child of François AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marguerite CHATIGNY.

Jean MORIN died 19 July 1873 in Chicoutimi, 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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Jean MORIN married

Cecile AUDET dite LAPOINTE-- Date: 21 June 1825 Place: Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada
Cecile AUDET dite LAPOINTE was the child of François AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marguerite CHATIGNY

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Children of Jean MORIN and Cecile AUDET dite LAPOINTE:

Elisabeth MORIN (b.24 November 1828, Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Pierre-Paul DUCHESNE 1 March 1859 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

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1793 Birth
30 October 1793
La Pocatière, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Jean MORIN and Cecile AUDET dite LAPOINTE 21 June 1825, Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean)

He was 31 years old.

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

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
Elisabeth MORIN was born 24 November 1828, Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada

Jean was 35 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

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)

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 of Child
Elisabeth MORIN married 1 March 1859, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada to Pierre-Paul DUCHESNE

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.