Flavie GAUTHIER

(b. 24 September 1803 , Deschambault, Lower Canada d. 24 January 1871 , Deschambault, Québec, Canada )

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Flavie GAUTHIER was born 24 September 1803 in Deschambault, Lower Canada

Flavie GAUTHIER was the child of Joseph GAUTHIER and Josephte ARCAND and the grandchild of: (paternal) Simon GAUTHIER and Elisabeth NAULT (maternal) Pierre ARCAND and Marguerite MONTAMBAULT

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Flavie married Joseph-David PETIT 3 July 1827 in Deschambault, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph-David PETIT was born abt. 1806 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Joseph-David was the child of Nicolas PETIT and Angélique MARCOTTE.

Flavie GAUTHIER died 24 January 1871 in Deschambault, 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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Flavie GAUTHIER married

Joseph-David PETIT-- Date: 3 July 1827 Place: Deschambault, Lower Canada
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Joseph-David PETIT was the child of Nicolas PETIT and Angélique MARCOTTE

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Children of Joseph-David PETIT and Flavie GAUTHIER:

Celanire PETIT (b.21 July 1831, Deschambault, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Jean-Baptiste MATTE 13 February 1849 in Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault)

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1803 Birth
24 September 1803
Deschambault, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Flavie GAUTHIER and Joseph-David PETIT 3 July 1827, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault)

She was 23 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1831 Birth of Child
Celanire PETIT was born 21 July 1831, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault)

Flavie was 27 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)

1849 Marriage of Child
Celanire PETIT married 13 February 1849, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault) to Jean-Baptiste MATTE

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.