Marie-Olive PRINCE

(b. 15 June 1819 , Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 8 May 1887 , Warwick, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada )

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Marie-Olive PRINCE was born 15 June 1819 in Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Marie-Olive PRINCE was the child of ? and ?

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

Marie-Olive married Joseph HOULE (HOUDE) abt. 1839 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph HOULE (HOUDE) was born 18 September 1815 in Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*.

Marie-Olive PRINCE died 8 May 1887 in Warwick, Arthabaska, Quebec, 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-Olive PRINCE married

Joseph HOULE (HOUDE)-- Date: abt. 1839 Place:

Children of Joseph HOULE (HOUDE) and Marie-Olive PRINCE:

Joseph HOULE (b.4 November 1839, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 13 April 1912, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Marie Rose MARTEL 11 January 1870

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1819 Birth
15 June 1819
Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada

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)

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)

1839 Birth of Child
Joseph HOULE was born 4 November 1839, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*

Marie-Olive was 20 years old.

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

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.