Ignace BOUCHARD

(b. 25 June 1795 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 18 September 1878 , Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada )

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Ignace BOUCHARD was born 25 June 1795 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Ignace BOUCHARD was the child of Jean BOUCHARD and Olive-Modeste FORTIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre BOUCHARD and Marie-Geneviève GRENON (maternal) Joseph-Marie FORTIN and Elisabeth BANVILLE

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

Ignace married Felicite SIMARD 19 May 1818 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Felicite SIMARD was born abt. 1803 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Felicite died 23 June 1865 in Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix). Felicite was the child of Joseph SIMARD and Olive COTE.

Ignace BOUCHARD died 18 September 1878 in Sainte-Agnès, 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
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Ignace BOUCHARD married

Felicite SIMARD-- Date: 19 May 1818 Place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Felicite SIMARD was the child of Joseph SIMARD and Olive COTE

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Children of Ignace BOUCHARD and Felicite SIMARD:

Olive BOUCHARD (b.4 October 1820, La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. 10 April 1900, St-Fidele, Quebec, Canada)
m. Alphonse DASSYLVA 26 September 1848 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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1795 Birth
25 June 1795
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Ignace BOUCHARD and Felicite SIMARD 19 May 1818, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 22 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1820 Birth of Child
Olive BOUCHARD was born 4 October 1820, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Ignace was 25 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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Olive BOUCHARD married 26 September 1848, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic) to Alphonse DASSYLVA

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)

1865 Death of Spouse/Partner
Felicite SIMARD died 23 June 1865, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

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.