Michel JEAN

(b. 28 September 1798 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. 2 July 1869 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )

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Michel JEAN was born 28 September 1798 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Michel JEAN was the child of Louis JEAN and Julie GAGNON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel JEAN and Marie-Françoise CARON (maternal) François-Xavier GAGNON and Marthe SARCELLIER

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

Michel married Marie-Marguerite AMIOT 9 November 1824 in Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Marguerite AMIOT was born abt. 1806 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Marguerite died 19 February 1895 in Delisle, Canada. Marie-Marguerite was the child of Louis AMIOT and Unknown UNKNOWN.

Michel JEAN died 2 July 1869 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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Michel JEAN married

Marie-Marguerite AMIOT-- Date: 9 November 1824 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada

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Marie-Marguerite AMIOT was the child of Louis AMIOT and Unknown UNKNOWN

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Children of Michel JEAN and Marie-Marguerite AMIOT:

Marie JEAN (b.31 July 1832, Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Edouard TREMBLAY 3 February 1852 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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1798 Birth
28 September 1798
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, 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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Michel JEAN and Marie-Marguerite AMIOT 9 November 1824, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

He was 26 years old.

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

1832 Birth of Child
Marie JEAN was born 31 July 1832, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Michel was 33 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

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.

1852 Marriage of Child
Marie JEAN married 3 February 1852, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Edouard TREMBLAY

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.