Michel BOUCHARD

(b. 29 September 1803 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 13 February 1884 , La Baie, Québec, Canada )

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Michel BOUCHARD was born 29 September 1803 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Michel BOUCHARD was the child of Godefroy BOUCHARD and Julie DESBIENS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Antoine BOUCHARD and Jeanne GAGNON (maternal) Louis-Marie DESBIENS and Anne-Louise TREMBLAY

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

Michel married Mathilde GAGNON 8 July 1828 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mathilde GAGNON was born 23 October 1812 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Mathilde was the child of Augustin GAGNON and Constance THERRIEN.

Michel BOUCHARD died 13 February 1884 in La Baie, 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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Michel BOUCHARD married

Mathilde GAGNON-- Date: 8 July 1828 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Mathilde GAGNON was the child of Augustin GAGNON and Constance THERRIEN

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Children of Michel BOUCHARD and Mathilde GAGNON:

Eleonore BOUCHARD (b.14 June 1834, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 23 September 1915, , Canada)
m. Joseph TREMBLAY 7 January 1852 in La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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1803 Birth
29 September 1803
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Michel BOUCHARD and Mathilde GAGNON 8 July 1828, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 24 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1834 Birth of Child
Eleonore BOUCHARD was born 14 June 1834, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Michel was 30 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
Eleonore BOUCHARD married 7 January 1852, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Joseph 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.