Jean-Baptiste PELLETIER

(b. abt. 1797 , Québec Province, Canada d. 8 May 1877 , Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste PELLETIER was born abt. 1797 in Québec Province, Canada

Jean-Baptiste PELLETIER was the child of Jean-Marie PELLETIER and Marie-Marguerite BOURGELAS dite DEGENE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph PELLETIER and Marie CARON (maternal) Maurice BOURGELAS dit DEGENE and Marguerite TOUSSAINT

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Jean-Baptiste married Priscille DARIS 12 February 1821 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Priscille DARIS was born 27 December 1797 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Priscille died 5 July 1853 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Priscille was the child of Barthelemy DARIS (DARRIS) and Marie-Josephte SIROIS dite DUPLESSIS.

Jean-Baptiste PELLETIER died 8 May 1877 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, 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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Jean-Baptiste PELLETIER married

Priscille DARIS-- Date: 12 February 1821 Place: Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Priscille DARIS was the child of Barthelemy DARIS (DARRIS) and Marie-Josephte SIROIS dite DUPLESSIS

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Children of Jean-Baptiste PELLETIER and Priscille DARIS:

Celanire-Marie-Philanise PELLETIER (b.20 August 1842, Kamouraska, Canada East d. 19 November 1911, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )
m. Albert TREMBLAY 14 April 1890 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre)

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

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

1821 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste PELLETIER and Priscille DARIS 12 February 1821, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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)

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

1842 Birth of Child
Celanire-Marie-Philanise PELLETIER was born 20 August 1842, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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.

1853 Death of Spouse/Partner
Priscille DARIS died 5 July 1853, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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.