Gabriel COTE

(b. 9 February 1792 , L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada d. 13 March 1869 , St Mathieu, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada )

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Gabriel COTE was born 9 February 1792 in L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada

Gabriel COTE was the child of Jean-Baptiste COTE and Marie-Scholastique LEVASSEUR and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste CÔTÉ and Geneviève BERNIER (maternal) Pierre LEVASSEUR and Geneviève RAYMOND dite PHOCAS

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

Gabriel married Christine DUMONT dite GUERET 18 January 1819 in L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Christine DUMONT dite GUERET was born 14 November 1797 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Christine died 20 January 1886 in St Fabien, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. Christine was the child of Jean-Baptiste DUMONT dit GUÉRET and Angélique MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES.

Gabriel COTE died 13 March 1869 in St Mathieu, Rimouski, Quebec, 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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Gabriel COTE married

Christine DUMONT dite GUERET-- Date: 18 January 1819 Place: L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada
Christine DUMONT dite GUERET was the child of Jean-Baptiste DUMONT dit GUÉRET and Angélique MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES

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Children of Gabriel COTE and Christine DUMONT dite GUERET:

Maeleine COTE (b.22 July 1822, L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada d. 18 May 1866, Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski, Quebec, Canada)
m. Narcisse LEVESQUE 15 January 1849 in L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

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1792 Birth
9 February 1792
L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada

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

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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Gabriel COTE and Christine DUMONT dite GUERET 18 January 1819, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

He was 26 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1822 Birth of Child
Maeleine COTE was born 22 July 1822, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

Gabriel was 30 years old.

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

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)

1849 Marriage of Child
Maeleine COTE married 15 January 1849, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte) to Narcisse LEVESQUE

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)

1866 Death of Child
Maeleine COTE died 18 May 1866, Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski, Quebec, Canada

Gabriel was 74 years old.

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.