Gerin (Géraud) AUDET

(b. 2 October 1831 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 18 May 1904 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Gerin (Géraud) AUDET was born 2 October 1831 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Gerin (Géraud) AUDET was the child of Barthelemy AUDET and Scholastique GAGNON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Barthelemy AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Procule TREMBLAY (maternal) Marie-Joseph GAGNON and Scholastique TREMBLAY

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

Gerin (Géraud) married Marie BOUCHARD 19 February 1855 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie BOUCHARD was born 30 September 1831 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. Marie died 5 September 1913 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Marie was the child of Damien BOUCHARD and Adelaide GIRARD.

Gerin (Géraud) AUDET died 18 May 1904 in Les Éboulements, 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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Gerin (Géraud) AUDET married

Marie BOUCHARD-- Date: 19 February 1855 Place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East

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Marie BOUCHARD was the child of Damien BOUCHARD and Adelaide GIRARD

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Children of Gerin (Géraud) AUDET and Marie BOUCHARD:

Marie-Eugenie AUDET (b.1 September 1863, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 11 January 1891, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )
m. Charles TREMBLAY 6 September 1881 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1831 Birth
2 October 1831
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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)

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.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Gerin (Géraud) AUDET and Marie BOUCHARD 19 February 1855, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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

1863 Birth of Child
Marie-Eugenie AUDET was born 1 September 1863, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Gerin (Géraud) was 31 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 Marriage of Child
Marie-Eugenie AUDET married 6 September 1881, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Charles TREMBLAY

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 Death of Child
Marie-Eugenie AUDET died 11 January 1891, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Gerin (Géraud) was 59 years old.

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1904 Death
18 May 1904
Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 72.

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