Elisabeth LAMOUREUX

(b. 30 June 1794 , Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 19 December 1869 , Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada )

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Elisabeth LAMOUREUX was born 30 June 1794 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Elisabeth LAMOUREUX was the child of Francois LAMOUREUX and Elisabeth LACHAMBRE (DECHAMBRE) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques LAMOUREUX and Marie-Amable EMERY (maternal) Prisque-Romain LACHAMBRE (DECHAMBRE) and Marie-Elisabeth PAQUET

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

Elisabeth married Etienne FONTAINE 6 February 1815 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Etienne FONTAINE was born 2 January 1793 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Etienne died 5 July 1856 in Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada. Etienne was the child of Etienne FONTAINE and Genevieve DAUPHINAIS.

Elisabeth LAMOUREUX died 19 December 1869 in Saint-Jude, 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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Family and Children of Elisabeth LAMOUREUX

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Elisabeth LAMOUREUX married

Etienne FONTAINE-- Date: 6 February 1815 Place: Saint-Ours, Lower Canada
Etienne FONTAINE was the child of Etienne FONTAINE and Genevieve DAUPHINAIS

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Children of Etienne FONTAINE and Elisabeth LAMOUREUX:

Thomas FONTAINE (b.6 November 1819, Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 21 September 1890, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada)
m. Rosanna (Rosalie) PHANEUF 1 February 1841 in Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada

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1794 Birth
30 June 1794
Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

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

1815 Marriage / Partner
Elisabeth LAMOUREUX and Etienne FONTAINE 6 February 1815, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

She was 20 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.

1819 Birth of Child
Thomas FONTAINE was born 6 November 1819, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

Elisabeth was 25 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)

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 Marriage of Child
Thomas FONTAINE married 1 February 1841, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada to Rosanna (Rosalie) PHANEUF

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.

1856 Death of Spouse/Partner
Etienne FONTAINE died 5 July 1856, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada

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.