Jean PILOTE

(b. 12 February 1788 , Les Éboulements, Province of Québec, Canada d. December 1871 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Jean PILOTE was born 12 February 1788 in Les Éboulements, Province of Québec, Canada

Jean PILOTE was the child of Ambroise PILOTE and Marie-Rosalie MARTEL and the grandchild of: (paternal) Ambroise PILOTE and Marie-Anne BOUCHER (maternal) Jean MARTEL and Rosalie GAGNON

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

Jean married Modeste BOIVIN 10 September 1811 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Modeste BOIVIN was born 2 January 1787 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Modeste was the child of Felix-Eustache BOIVIN and Madeleine-Ursule LAVOIE.

Jean PILOTE died December 1871 in Baie-Saint-Paul, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Jean PILOTE married

Modeste BOIVIN-- Date: 10 September 1811 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Modeste BOIVIN was the child of Felix-Eustache BOIVIN and Madeleine-Ursule LAVOIE

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Children of Jean PILOTE and Modeste BOIVIN:

Joseph PILOTE (b.abt. 1818, , Québec Province, Canada d. 27 October 1906, Saint-Félicien, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )
m. Marie-Josephte SIMARD 21 February 1843 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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1788 Birth
12 February 1788
Les Éboulements, 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)

1811 Marriage / Partner
Jean PILOTE and Modeste BOIVIN 10 September 1811, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 23 years old.

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

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)

1843 Marriage of Child
Joseph PILOTE married 21 February 1843, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Marie-Josephte SIMARD

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.