Honore MALENFANT

(b. 27 May 1816 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 16 May 1897 , L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada )

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Honore MALENFANT was born 27 May 1816 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Honore MALENFANT was the child of Guillaume MALENFANT and Victoire LEBEL and the grandchild of: (paternal) Guillaume-Pierre MALENFANT and Marie-Josephte LEVESQUE (maternal) Joseph-Marie LEBEL and Victoire SOUCY

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

Honore married Leocadie PELLETIER 16 July 1839 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Leocadie PELLETIER was born 7 September 1821 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Leocadie died 5 November 1881 in L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte). Leocadie was the child of Jean-Bernard PELLETIER and Genevieve BELANGER.

Honore MALENFANT died 16 May 1897 in L'Isle-Verte, 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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Honore MALENFANT married

Leocadie PELLETIER-- Date: 16 July 1839 Place: Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada
Leocadie PELLETIER was the child of Jean-Bernard PELLETIER and Genevieve BELANGER

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Children of Honore MALENFANT and Leocadie PELLETIER:

Bruno MALENFANT (b.5 October 1845, Cacouna, Canada East d. 19 April 1900, Lewiston, Maine, USA)
m. Celina COTE 9 November 1869 in L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

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1816 Birth
27 May 1816
Kamouraska, 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)

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)

1839 Marriage / Partner
Honore MALENFANT and Leocadie PELLETIER 16 July 1839, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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)

1845 Birth of Child
Bruno MALENFANT was born 5 October 1845, Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna)

Honore was 29 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.