Joseph VILLENEUVE

(b. 30 January 1793 , Charlesbourg, Québec, Lower Canada d. 16 April 1883 , Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph VILLENEUVE was born 30 January 1793 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Lower Canada

Joseph VILLENEUVE was the child of Joseph VILLENEUVE and Louise BEDARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François VILLENEUVE and Marie-Elisabeth JOBIN (maternal) Jean-Etienne BEDARD and Marie-Angelique LEREAU (L'HERAULT)

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

Joseph married Madeleine CLOUTIER 23 November 1824 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Madeleine CLOUTIER was born 4 February 1804 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal). Madeleine died 28 November 1886 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal). Madeleine was the child of Louis CLOUTIER and Marguerite VILLENEUVE.

Joseph VILLENEUVE died 16 April 1883 in Charlesbourg, Québec, 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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Joseph VILLENEUVE married

Madeleine CLOUTIER-- Date: 23 November 1824 Place: Charlesbourg, Québec, Lower Canada

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Madeleine CLOUTIER was the child of Louis CLOUTIER and Marguerite VILLENEUVE

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Children of Joseph VILLENEUVE and Madeleine CLOUTIER:

Alvina VILLENEUVE (b.23 May 1849, Charlesbourg, Québec, Canada East d. 15 July 1883, Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada )
m. Jean-Isidore TREMBLAY 14 January 1873 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal)

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1793 Birth
30 January 1793
Charlesbourg, Québec, 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.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Joseph VILLENEUVE and Madeleine CLOUTIER 23 November 1824, Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal)

He was 31 years old.

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)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 Birth of Child
Alvina VILLENEUVE was born 23 May 1849, Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal)

Joseph was 56 years old.

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.