Marie-Henriette METIVIER

(b. 17 September 1833 , Saint-Anselme, Bellechasse, Lower Canada d. abt. 1881 , Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Henriette METIVIER was born 17 September 1833 in Saint-Anselme, Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Marie-Henriette METIVIER was the child of Pierre METIVIER and Marie-Rufine KEROUAC

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Marie-Henriette married David CARON 2 August 1853 in St Bernard, Beauce, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
David CARON was born abt. 1830 in Saint-Lambert, Québec, Canada. David was the child of Jean-Baptiste CARON and Archange DUPONT.

Marie-Henriette METIVIER died abt. 1881 in Saint-Jude, 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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Marie-Henriette METIVIER married

David CARON-- Date: 2 August 1853 Place: St Bernard, Beauce, Quebec, Canada
David CARON was the child of Jean-Baptiste CARON and Archange DUPONT

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Children of David CARON and Marie-Henriette METIVIER:

Henriette Agnes CARON (b.8 January 1860, St-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, Canada d. 14 June 1919, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA )
m. Charles ST CYR 24 April 1876

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1833 Birth
17 September 1833
Saint-Anselme, Bellechasse, 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.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Henriette METIVIER and David CARON 2 August 1853, St Bernard, Beauce, Quebec, Canada

She was 19 years old.

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

1860 Birth of Child
Henriette Agnes CARON was born 8 January 1860, St-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, Canada

Marie-Henriette was 26 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.