Edouard FORTIN

(b. 20 January 1793 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. 2 March 1879 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada )

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Edouard FORTIN was born 20 January 1793 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Edouard FORTIN was the child of Charles-François FORTIN and Josephte PELLETIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles-Francois FORTIN and Madeleine PAIN dite LANGLOIS (maternal) Jean-Bernard PELLETIER and Anne-Josephte CARON

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

Edouard married Geneviève LANGELIER 9 April 1815 in L'Islet, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Geneviève LANGELIER was born 1 July 1794 in L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours). Geneviève died 27 January 1825 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Geneviève was the child of François LANGELIER and Geneviève BERNIER.

Edouard FORTIN died 2 March 1879 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Edouard FORTIN was a agriculteur.

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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Edouard FORTIN married

Geneviève LANGELIER-- Date: 9 April 1815 Place: L'Islet, Lower Canada
Geneviève LANGELIER was the child of François LANGELIER and Geneviève BERNIER

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Children of Edouard FORTIN and Geneviève LANGELIER:

Elisabeth FORTIN (b.16 July 1816, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada d. 25 January 1897, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada)
m. André PELLETIER 11 February 1840 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

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1793 Birth
20 January 1793
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1815 Marriage / Partner
Edouard FORTIN and Geneviève LANGELIER 9 April 1815, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

He was 22 years old.

1816 Birth of Child
Elisabeth FORTIN was born 16 July 1816, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

Edouard 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)

1825 Death of Spouse/Partner
Geneviève LANGELIER died 27 January 1825, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

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

1840 Marriage of Child
Elisabeth FORTIN married 11 February 1840, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada to André PELLETIER

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.