Alexandre BERUBE

(b. 16 March 1799 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada d. 29 November 1876 , Sainte-Flavie, Québec, Canada )

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Alexandre BERUBE was born 16 March 1799 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Alexandre BERUBE was the child of Jean-Benoni BERUBE and Marie-Claire GAGNON and the grandchild of: (paternal) André BERUBE and Marie-Josephte VEZINA (maternal) Joseph GAGNON and Madeleine MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES

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

Alexandre married Angele DUPERE 7 January 1840 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Angele DUPERE was born abt. 1802 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Angele died abt. 1877 in Sainte-Flavie, Québec, Canada. Angele was the child of Louis DUPERE and Marie-Genevieve PHOCAS.

Alexandre BERUBE died 29 November 1876 in Sainte-Flavie, 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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Alexandre BERUBE married

Angele DUPERE-- Date: 7 January 1840 Place: La Pocatière, Lower Canada
Angele DUPERE was the child of Louis DUPERE and Marie-Genevieve PHOCAS

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Children of Alexandre BERUBE and Angele DUPERE:

Aglae BERUBE (b.24 September 1847, La Pocatière, Canada East d. , )
m. Donat TREMBLAY 30 June 1870

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1799 Birth
16 March 1799
Rivière-Ouelle, 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)

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

1840 Marriage / Partner
Alexandre BERUBE and Angele DUPERE 7 January 1840, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

He was 40 years old.

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)

1847 Birth of Child
Aglae BERUBE was born 24 September 1847, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

Alexandre was 48 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.