Francois GUÉTHIER (ÉTHIER)

(b. 9 October 1808 , Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada d. 23 September 1883 , Gracefield, Gatineau, Québec, Canada )

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Francois GUÉTHIER (ÉTHIER) was born 9 October 1808 in Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada

Francois GUÉTHIER (ÉTHIER) was the child of ? and ?

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Francois married Marie-Madeleine ALBERT abt. 1835 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Madeleine ALBERT was born abt. 1811 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Madeleine died 10 August 1890 in Gracefield, Gatineau, Québec, Canada.

Francois GUÉTHIER (ÉTHIER) died 23 September 1883 in Gracefield, Gatineau, 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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Francois GUÉTHIER (ÉTHIER) married

Marie-Madeleine ALBERT-- Date: abt. 1835 Place:

Children of Francois GUÉTHIER (ÉTHIER) and Marie-Madeleine ALBERT:

François-Xavier ETHIER (b.13 March 1835, Beauharnois, Lower Canada d. 2 August 1922, Montcerf-Lytton, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Quebec, Canada)
m. Mary Anne CRITES 21 June 1860 in Maniwaki, Québec, Canada (River Desert) (L'Assomption-de-Maniwaki)

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1808 Birth
9 October 1808
Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada

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.

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

1835 Birth of Child
François-Xavier ETHIER was born 13 March 1835, Beauharnois, Québec, Canada

Francois was 26 years old.

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

1860 Marriage of Child
François-Xavier ETHIER married 21 June 1860, Maniwaki, Québec, Canada (River Desert) (L'Assomption-de-Maniwaki) to Mary Anne CRITES

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.