Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST)

(b. 15 February 1793 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 3 February 1876 , Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada )

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Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST) was born 15 February 1793 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST) was the child of Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST) and Marguerite DAIGNEAU (DENIAU) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Raphaël PROVOST (PREVOST) and Ursule DENEAU (DENIAU) dite DETAILLY

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

Alexis married Josephte FOUCRAULT 11 May 1812 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte FOUCRAULT was born 19 October 1796 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Josephte was the child of Gabriel FOUCRAULT and Marie-Josephe GALARNEAU.

Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST) died 3 February 1876 in Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, 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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Family and Children of Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST)

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Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST) married

Josephte FOUCRAULT-- Date: 11 May 1812 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Josephte FOUCRAULT was the child of Gabriel FOUCRAULT and Marie-Josephe GALARNEAU

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Children of Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST) and Josephte FOUCRAULT:

Esther PROVOST (PREVOST) (b.31 May 1813, La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 6 September 1899, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada)
m. Francois-Marcian TREMBLAY 3 November 1829 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1793 Birth
15 February 1793
La Prairie, Lower Canada

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

1812 Marriage / Partner
Alexis PROVOST (PREVOST) and Josephte FOUCRAULT 11 May 1812, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 19 years old.

1813 Birth of Child
Esther PROVOST (PREVOST) was born 31 May 1813, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Alexis was 20 years old.

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)

1829 Marriage of Child
Esther PROVOST (PREVOST) married 3 November 1829, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Francois-Marcian TREMBLAY

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

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.