Antoine LEMIEUX

(b. 29 October 1787 , Lauzon, Lévis, Province of Québec, Canada d. 9 September 1871 , Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire-Levis, Levis, Quebec, Canada )

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Antoine LEMIEUX was born 29 October 1787 in Lauzon, Lévis, Province of Québec, Canada

Antoine LEMIEUX was the child of Claude LEMIEUX and Louise BELANGER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel LEMIEUX and Marie-Anne BEGIN (maternal) Jacques BELANGER and Jeanne PROTEAU

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

Antoine married Marie-Catherine MORIN 6 July 1819 in Saint-Henri, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Catherine MORIN was born 23 February 1800 in Saint-Henri, Québec, Canada (Saint-Henri-de-Lauzon). Marie-Catherine died 10 February 1897 in Saint-David-de-l'Auberivière, Lévis, Lévis, Québec, Canada. Marie-Catherine was the child of Jacques MORIN and Marie-Louise MORISSET (MORISSETTE).

Antoine LEMIEUX died 9 September 1871 in Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire-Levis, Levis, 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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Antoine LEMIEUX married

Marie-Catherine MORIN-- Date: 6 July 1819 Place: Saint-Henri, Lower Canada
Marie-Catherine MORIN was the child of Jacques MORIN and Marie-Louise MORISSET (MORISSETTE)

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Children of Antoine LEMIEUX and Marie-Catherine MORIN:

Joseph LEMIEUX (b.22 January 1829, St-Joseph, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada d. 1 January 1911, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Rose-Delima BEGIN 23 August 1859

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1787 Birth
29 October 1787
Lauzon, Lévis, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and 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
Antoine LEMIEUX and Marie-Catherine MORIN 6 July 1819, Saint-Henri, Québec, Canada (Saint-Henri-de-Lauzon)

He was 31 years old.

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)

1829 Birth of Child
Joseph LEMIEUX was born 22 January 1829, St-Joseph, Dorchester, Quebec, Canada

Antoine was 41 years old.

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.