Genevieve PAQUET

(b. 22 August 1797 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 19 May 1884 , Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada )

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Genevieve PAQUET was born 22 August 1797 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Genevieve PAQUET was the child of Louis-Maurice PAQUET and Marguerite VAUTOUR and the grandchild of: (paternal) Maurice PAQUET and Thérèse DRAPEAU (maternal) Bernard VAUTOUR and Anne RANCOURT

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Genevieve married Antoine MAHEU 22 June 1819 in Châteauguay, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Antoine MAHEU was born 7 December 1794 in Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres). Antoine died 12 December 1875 in Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada. Antoine was the child of Pierre MAHEU and Marie-Anne TRUDEL.

Genevieve PAQUET died 19 May 1884 in Sainte-Martine, 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 Genevieve PAQUET

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Genevieve PAQUET married

Antoine MAHEU-- Date: 22 June 1819 Place: Châteauguay, Lower Canada
Antoine MAHEU was the child of Pierre MAHEU and Marie-Anne TRUDEL

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Children of Antoine MAHEU and Genevieve PAQUET:

Claire MAHEU (b.27 July 1829, Sainte-Martine, Lower Canada d. 16 August 1872, Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada)
m. Augustin DUGAS 22 November 1853 in Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada

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1797 Birth
22 August 1797
La Prairie, Lower Canada

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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Genevieve PAQUET and Antoine MAHEU 22 June 1819, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

She was 21 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)

1829 Birth of Child
Claire MAHEU was born 27 July 1829, Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada

Genevieve was 31 years old.

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)

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.

1853 Marriage of Child
Claire MAHEU married 22 November 1853, Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada to Augustin DUGAS

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.