Justine DESMARAIS

(b. 9 August 1815 , Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 13 March 1887 , Saint-Valérien, Québec, Canada )

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Justine DESMARAIS was born 9 August 1815 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Justine DESMARAIS was the child of Jean-Baptiste DESMARAIS and Marie-Louise CHAGNON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-Paul DESMARAIS and Marie-Françoise TRUDEAU (maternal) Louis CHAGNON and Marie-Louise ROLLAND

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

Justine married Charles PAQUET 12 February 1833 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Charles PAQUET was born 9 April 1810 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Charles was the child of Charles PAQUET dit LAVALLEE and Marie-Angelique CHAGNON.

Justine DESMARAIS died 13 March 1887 in Saint-Valérien, 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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Justine DESMARAIS married

Charles PAQUET-- Date: 12 February 1833 Place: Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada
Charles PAQUET was the child of Charles PAQUET dit LAVALLEE and Marie-Angelique CHAGNON

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Children of Charles PAQUET and Justine DESMARAIS:

Julienne PAQUET dite LAVALLEE (b.abt. 1840, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Eusebe LABRECQUE 7 January 1862 in Saint-Valérien, Québec, Canada (St-Valerien) (Saint-Valérien-de-Milton)

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1815 Birth
9 August 1815
Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, 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

1833 Marriage / Partner
Justine DESMARAIS and Charles PAQUET 12 February 1833, Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

She was 17 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 Marriage of Child
Julienne PAQUET dite LAVALLEE married 7 January 1862, Saint-Valérien, Québec, Canada (St-Valerien) (Saint-Valérien-de-Milton) to Eusebe LABRECQUE

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.