Marie POTVIN

(b. abt. 1854 , Québec Province, Canada d. 4 December 1890 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Marie POTVIN was born abt. 1854 in Québec Province, Canada

Marie POTVIN was the child of Georges POTVIN and Marie GAUTHIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Francois POTVIN and Marie-Anne THIBAULT (maternal) Antoine GONTHIER and Catherine TREMBLAY

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Marie married Alexis TREMBLAY 10 January 1871 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada . Alexis TREMBLAY was born 16 December 1843 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Alexis was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Angele SAVARD.

Marie POTVIN died 4 December 1890 in Les Éboulements, 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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Alexis TREMBLAY-- Date: 10 January 1871 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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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.

1871 Marriage / Partner
Marie POTVIN and Alexis TREMBLAY 10 January 1871, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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 - 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)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)