Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT

(b. 10 March 1834 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 9 June 1910 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT was born 10 March 1834 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT was the child of Pierre ARCHAMBAULT and Catherine LEBLANC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste ARCHAMBAULT and Marie-Elisabeth-Isabelle BOUSQUET (maternal) Joseph-Cajetan LEBLANC and Scholastique CHAINE (CHENET)

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

Hedwidge married Pierre LEBLANC 1 April 1856 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 13 children.
Pierre LEBLANC was born 16 May 1833 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Pierre died 1 April 1894 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Pierre was the child of Louis LEBLANC and Sophie PARÉ.

Hedwidge married (2) Cleophas LARUE 28 September 1901 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada . Cleophas LARUE was born abt. 1830 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Cleophas was the child of Thomas LARUE and Marie-Rose VIGEANT.

Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT died 9 June 1910 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT married

Pierre LEBLANC-- Date: 1 April 1856 Place: Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East
Pierre LEBLANC was the child of Louis LEBLANC and Sophie PARÉ

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Children of Pierre LEBLANC and Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT:

Hedwidge LEBLANC (b.6 March 1858, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East d. , )

Arthur LEBLANC (b.30 March 1859, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East d. , )

Paul LEBLANC (b.3 March 1860, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East d. , )

Alphonse LEBLANC (b.29 October 1861, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East d. , )

Louis-Amedee LEBLANC (b.31 March 1864, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East d. , )

Jean-Baptiste-Eugene LEBLANC (b.6 February 1866, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East d. , )

Valerie Fedelia LEBLANC (b.11 April 1867, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East d. 9 May 1936, Leominster, Massachusetts, USA)

Flore LEBLANC (b.30 June 1868, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada d. , )

Jean-Baptiste LEBLANC (b.2 September 1869, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada d. , )

Isidore-Alfred LEBLANC (b.27 September 1870, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada d. , )

Marie-Josephe-Alphonsine LEBLANC (b.1 March 1872, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada d. , )

Joseph-Arthur LEBLANC (b.29 March 1873, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada d. , )

Marie-Louise-Albertine LEBLANC (b.6 September 1875, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada d. , )

Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT married

Cleophas LARUE-- Date: 28 September 1901 Place: Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada
Cleophas LARUE was the child of Thomas LARUE and Marie-Rose VIGEANT

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1834 Birth
10 March 1834
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

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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.

1856 Marriage / Partner
Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT and Pierre LEBLANC 1 April 1856, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

She was 22 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Hedwidge LEBLANC was born 6 March 1858, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 24 years old.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1859 Birth of Child
Arthur LEBLANC was born 30 March 1859, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 25 years old.

1860 Birth of Child
Paul LEBLANC was born 3 March 1860, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 26 years old.

1861 Birth of Child
Alphonse LEBLANC was born 29 October 1861, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 27 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1864 Birth of Child
Louis-Amedee LEBLANC was born 31 March 1864, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 30 years old.

1866 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene LEBLANC was born 6 February 1866, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 31 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Valerie Fedelia LEBLANC was born 11 April 1867, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 33 years old.

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.

1868 Birth of Child
Flore LEBLANC was born 30 June 1868, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 34 years old.

1869 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste LEBLANC was born 2 September 1869, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 35 years old.

1870 Birth of Child
Isidore-Alfred LEBLANC was born 27 September 1870, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 36 years old.

1872 Birth of Child
Marie-Josephe-Alphonsine LEBLANC was born 1 March 1872, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 38 years old.

1873 Birth of Child
Joseph-Arthur LEBLANC was born 29 March 1873, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 39 years old.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1875 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise-Albertine LEBLANC was born 6 September 1875, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Hedwidge was 41 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.

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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Pierre LEBLANC died 1 April 1894, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, 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)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 Marriage / Partner
Hedwidge ARCHAMBAULT and Cleophas LARUE 28 September 1901, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

She was 67 years old.

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)