Adelaide FOURNIER

(b. 9 November 1831 , L'Islet, Lower Canada d. abt. 1878 , Yamaska, Québec, Canada )

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Adelaide FOURNIER was born 9 November 1831 in L'Islet, Lower Canada

Adelaide FOURNIER was the child of ? and ?

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Adelaide married Jean-Augustin LAMARRE 16 September 1862 in L'Islet, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Augustin LAMARRE was born 2 January 1830 in Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska). Jean-Augustin died 16 July 1898

Adelaide FOURNIER died abt. 1878 in Yamaska, 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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Adelaide FOURNIER married

Jean-Augustin LAMARRE-- Date: 16 September 1862 Place: L'Islet, Canada East

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Children of Jean-Augustin LAMARRE and Adelaide FOURNIER:

Theophile LAMARRE (b.04/30/1866, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada d. abt. 1930, North Attleborough, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Georgianna DESROSIERS 25 January 1886

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1831 Birth
9 November 1831
L'Islet, 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.

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

1862 Marriage / Partner
Adelaide FOURNIER and Jean-Augustin LAMARRE 16 September 1862, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

She was 30 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
Theophile LAMARRE was born 04/30/1866, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada

Adelaide was 34 years old.

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.