Benjamin DUFOUR

(b. abt. 1806 , Québec Province, Canada d. 2 April 1887 , La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

Am I Your Ancestor?
DUFOUR Family Tree – Connecting the Past to the Present!

What started out as our family is now your’s too!

Benjamin DUFOUR was born abt. 1806 in Québec Province, Canada

Benjamin DUFOUR was the child of Timothee DUFOUR and Elisabeth SIMARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Gabriel DUFOUR and Madeleine BOISSONNEAU (maternal) Louis-Henri SIMARD and Felicite BOIVIN

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

Benjamin married Leocadie COTE 12 February 1828 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Leocadie COTE was born 29 August 1812 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Leocadie died 23 September 1900 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Leocadie was the child of Thomas COTE and Angele GAGNON.

Benjamin DUFOUR died 2 April 1887 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada .
Details of the family tree of Benjamin appear below.

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.

A Glimpse into the Everyday Life of a Québécois Man in the Mid-1800s

The Definitive Guide for Researching Your French-Canadian Ancestors in 2025

Family and Children of Benjamin DUFOUR

[Hide/Show]

Benjamin DUFOUR married

Leocadie COTE-- Date: 12 February 1828 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Leocadie COTE was the child of Thomas COTE and Angele GAGNON

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Benjamin DUFOUR and Leocadie COTE:

Delima DUFOUR (b.abt. 1856, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Joseph TREMBLAY 5 February 1878 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Share the History, Life Events, and Stories of Benjamin DUFOUR
(Add details like birth, baptism, census records, military service, obituary, personal achievements, and more.)

[Hide/Show]

Discovering the Ancestry of Benjamin DUFOUR: Events, Photos & Historical Records

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
Benjamin DUFOUR and Leocadie COTE 12 February 1828, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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)

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 Marriage of Child
Delima DUFOUR married 5 February 1878, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic) to Joseph TREMBLAY

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)