Mathilde-Martine VAILLANCOURT

(b. abt. 1834 , Laval, Lower Canada d. 29 April 1901 , Allumette Island, Pontiac, Québec, Canada )

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Mathilde-Martine VAILLANCOURT was born abt. 1834 in Laval, Lower Canada

Mathilde-Martine VAILLANCOURT was the child of ? and ?

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Mathilde-Martine married Joseph CHAPUT abt. 1854 in Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph CHAPUT was born abt. 1830 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec).

Mathilde-Martine VAILLANCOURT died 29 April 1901 in Allumette Island, Pontiac, 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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Mathilde-Martine VAILLANCOURT married

Joseph CHAPUT-- Date: abt. 1854 Place: Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Canada East

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Children of Joseph CHAPUT and Mathilde-Martine VAILLANCOURT:

Olive CHAPUT (b.11 August 1862, Allumette Island, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada d. , )
m. Jean Baptiste RAYMOND 26 November 1881 in Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island)

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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 Birth of Child
Olive CHAPUT was born 11 August 1862, Allumette Island, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada

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
Olive CHAPUT married 26 November 1881, Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island) to Jean Baptiste RAYMOND

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 - 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)