Marie LAVOIE

(b. abt. 1785 , Québec Province, Canada d. 5 June 1868 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Marie LAVOIE was born abt. 1785 in Québec Province, Canada

Marie LAVOIE was the child of Jean-Baptiste LAVOIE and Angélique FORTIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques LAVOIE and Marie-Madeleine GUAY (CASTONGUAY) (maternal) Jacques FORTIN and Angélique TREMBLAY

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

Marie married Jacques MENARD 13 October 1801 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Jacques MENARD was born 8 August 1775 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Jacques was the child of Jean-Baptiste MENARD and Pelagie SIMARD.

Marie LAVOIE died 5 June 1868 in Baie-Saint-Paul, 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 Marie LAVOIE

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Marie LAVOIE married

Jacques MENARD-- Date: 13 October 1801 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Jacques MENARD was the child of Jean-Baptiste MENARD and Pelagie SIMARD

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Children of Jacques MENARD and Marie LAVOIE:

Adelaide MENARD (b.11 January 1807, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 15 September 1884, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )
m. Augustin VANDAL 12 November 1822 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Judith MENARD (b.16 December 1810, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 2 January 1883, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada)
m. Antoine FORTIN 7 February 1831 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1801 Marriage / Partner
Marie LAVOIE and Jacques MENARD 13 October 1801, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

1807 Birth of Child
Adelaide MENARD was born 11 January 1807, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

1810 Birth of Child
Judith MENARD was born 16 December 1810, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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

1822 Marriage of Child
Adelaide MENARD married 12 November 1822, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Augustin VANDAL

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

1831 Marriage of Child
Judith MENARD married 7 February 1831, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Antoine FORTIN

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.