Adelaide ANCTIL

(b. 14 May 1812 , La Pocatière, Lower Canada d. 1 November 1885 , Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Canada )

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Adelaide ANCTIL was born 14 May 1812 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada

Adelaide ANCTIL was the child of Paul ANCTIL and Theotiste PELLETIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste ANCTIL and Elisabeth-Barbe FOURNIER (maternal) Francois-Maurice-Charles PELLETIER and Madeleine PELLETIER

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

Adelaide married Hyacinthe GAGNON 14 February 1832 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Hyacinthe GAGNON was born 4 December 1802 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Hyacinthe died 21 February 1884 in Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Canada. Hyacinthe was the child of Barthelemy GAGNON and Marie-Catherine GARON.

Adelaide ANCTIL died 1 November 1885 in Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, 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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Adelaide ANCTIL married

Hyacinthe GAGNON-- Date: 14 February 1832 Place: La Pocatière, Lower Canada
Hyacinthe GAGNON was the child of Barthelemy GAGNON and Marie-Catherine GARON

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Children of Hyacinthe GAGNON and Adelaide ANCTIL:

Francois Georges GAGNON (b.28 May 1848, Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada d. 1 February 1912, Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada)
m. Justine BERUBE 7 January 1868

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1812 Birth
14 May 1812
La Pocatière, Lower Canada

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

1832 Marriage / Partner
Adelaide ANCTIL and Hyacinthe GAGNON 14 February 1832, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

She was 19 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Francois Georges GAGNON was born 28 May 1848, Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

Adelaide was 36 years old.

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.