Jean-Baptiste RACICOT

(b. 15 July 1850 , Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East d. 15 November 1889 , Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste RACICOT was born 15 July 1850 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East

Jean-Baptiste RACICOT was the child of Jean-Baptiste RACICOT and Marcelline BOURBEAU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre RACICOT and Marie-Amable GOGUET (GOYETTE) (maternal) Francois-Augustin BOURBEAU and Marie-Josephte-Luce ROUSSEL

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Jean-Baptiste married Celeste TREMBLAY 3 August 1874 in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada . Celeste TREMBLAY was born 9 May 1826 in Saint-Mathias, Rouville, Quebec, Canada. Celeste died 4 April 1906 in Leominster, Massachusetts, USA. Celeste was the child of Bernard TREMBLAY and Celeste GRAVEL.

Jean-Baptiste RACICOT died 15 November 1889 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada .
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Celeste TREMBLAY-- Date: 3 August 1874 Place: Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada
Celeste TREMBLAY was the child of Bernard TREMBLAY and Celeste GRAVEL

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1850 Birth
15 July 1850
Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East

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.

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

1874 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste RACICOT and Celeste TREMBLAY 3 August 1874, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Olivier)

He was 24 years old.

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)

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.