Chantal PRUNEAU

(b. 19 April 1799 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada d. 14 December 1871 , Kamouraska, Québec, Canada )

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Chantal PRUNEAU was born 19 April 1799 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Chantal PRUNEAU was the child of Charles PRUNEAU and Marguerite GERBERT dite JALBERT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis PRUNEAU and Marie-Geneviève DESTROISMAISONS dite PICARD (maternal) Jean-François GERBERT dit JALBERT and Françoise LANOUE

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

Chantal married Augustin OUELLET 10 February 1835 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Augustin OUELLET was born 20 August 1784 in La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere). Augustin died 18 August 1862 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Augustin was the child of Charles-Francois OUELLET and Marthe MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES.

Chantal PRUNEAU died 14 December 1871 in Kamouraska, 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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Chantal PRUNEAU married

Augustin OUELLET-- Date: 10 February 1835 Place: Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada
Augustin OUELLET was the child of Charles-Francois OUELLET and Marthe MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES

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Children of Augustin OUELLET and Chantal PRUNEAU:

Jeanne-Chantal OUELLET (b.28 January 1836, Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 4 January 1929, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada )
m. Noel-Alexis TREMBLAY 4 June 1866

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1799 Birth
19 April 1799
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, 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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Chantal PRUNEAU and Augustin OUELLET 10 February 1835, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

She was 35 years old.

1836 Birth of Child
Jeanne-Chantal OUELLET was born 28 January 1836, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

Chantal was 36 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.

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

1862 Death of Spouse/Partner
Augustin OUELLET died 18 August 1862, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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.