Justine BONENFANT

(b. 23 December 1834 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada d. 27 March 1885 , Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada )

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Justine BONENFANT was born 23 December 1834 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Justine BONENFANT was the child of Pierre BONENFANT and Angele LAPIERRE dite OUVRARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Louis BONENFANT and Dorothee HUDON dite BEAULIEU (maternal) Charles LAPIERRE dit OUVRARD and Marie-Josephte DEFOY

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

Justine married Joseph LEVESQUE 22 July 1862 in Rivière-Ouelle, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph LEVESQUE was born abt. 1840 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Joseph was the child of Ignace LEVESQUE and Genevieve DUBE.

Justine BONENFANT died 27 March 1885 in Rivière-Ouelle, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Justine BONENFANT married

Joseph LEVESQUE-- Date: 22 July 1862 Place: Rivière-Ouelle, Canada East
Joseph LEVESQUE was the child of Ignace LEVESQUE and Genevieve DUBE

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Children of Joseph LEVESQUE and Justine BONENFANT:

Anais LEVESQUE (b.27 May 1876, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada d. 22 July 1911, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada )
m. Joseph-Pitre TREMBLAY 23 November 1903 in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

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1834 Birth
23 December 1834
Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Justine BONENFANT and Joseph LEVESQUE 22 July 1862, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

She was 27 years old.

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.