Antoine BRUNET

(b. 9 December 1790 , Vaudreuil, Province of Québec, Canada d. 24 February 1872 , Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada )

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Antoine BRUNET was born 9 December 1790 in Vaudreuil, Province of Québec, Canada

Antoine BRUNET was the child of Louis BRUNET and Charlotte POIRIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph BRUNET and Amable LEFEBVRE (maternal) Michel POIRIER dit DESLOGES and Marie-Louise GENU (GENUS)

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

Antoine married Rose LALONDE 28 September 1818 in Vaudreuil, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Rose LALONDE was born 20 September 1800 in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada (Vaudreuil-Dorion). Rose died 6 June 1872 in Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres). Rose was the child of Amable LALONDE and Marie-Esther-Rose VINCENT.

Antoine BRUNET died 24 February 1872 in Les Cèdres, 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 Antoine BRUNET

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Antoine BRUNET married

Rose LALONDE-- Date: 28 September 1818 Place: Vaudreuil, Lower Canada
Rose LALONDE was the child of Amable LALONDE and Marie-Esther-Rose VINCENT

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Children of Antoine BRUNET and Rose LALONDE:

Joseph-Amable BRUNET (b.29 November 1839, Les Cèdres, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Philomene LEVAC 19 July 1859 in Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres)

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1790 Birth
9 December 1790
Vaudreuil, 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)

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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Antoine BRUNET and Rose LALONDE 28 September 1818, Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada (Vaudreuil-Dorion)

He was 27 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)

1839 Birth of Child
Joseph-Amable BRUNET was born 29 November 1839, Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres)

Antoine was 49 years old.

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)

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

1859 Marriage of Child
Joseph-Amable BRUNET married 19 July 1859, Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres) to Philomene LEVAC

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.