Antoine PRIMEAU

(b. abt. 1806 , Québec Province, Canada d. 9 November 1870 , Beauharnois, Québec, Canada )

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Antoine PRIMEAU was born abt. 1806 in Québec Province, Canada

Antoine PRIMEAU was the child of Hyacinthe PRIMEAU and Isabelle-Elisabeth GENDRON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Paul PRIMEAU and Louise EMARD (AYMARD) (maternal) Michel-Charles GENDRON and Marie-Rose CUILLERIER

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

Antoine married Thecle BOURDON 4 November 1834 in Châteauguay, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Thecle BOURDON was born 20 February 1816 in Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay) . Thecle died 25 December 1893 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Thecle was the child of Isidore BOURDON and Adelaide SENTENNE.

Antoine PRIMEAU died 9 November 1870 in Beauharnois, 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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Family and Children of Antoine PRIMEAU

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Antoine PRIMEAU married

Thecle BOURDON-- Date: 4 November 1834 Place: Châteauguay, Lower Canada
Thecle BOURDON was the child of Isidore BOURDON and Adelaide SENTENNE

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Children of Antoine PRIMEAU and Thecle BOURDON:

Nathalie PRIMEAU (b.22 January 1850, Beauharnois, Canada East d. , )
m. Joseph TREMBLAY 12 October 1869 in Beauharnois, Québec, Canada

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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)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1834 Marriage / Partner
Antoine PRIMEAU and Thecle BOURDON 4 November 1834, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

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)

1850 Birth of Child
Nathalie PRIMEAU was born 22 January 1850, Beauharnois, Québec, Canada

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.