Elizabeth-Anne PICKEL

(b. 18 August 1816 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 19 October 1891 , Montréal, Québec, Canada )

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Elizabeth-Anne PICKEL was born 18 August 1816 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Elizabeth-Anne PICKEL was the child of ? and ?

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Elizabeth-Anne married Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) MACDONELL 10 January 1835 in Montréal, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) MACDONELL was born 21 October 1799 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) died abt. 1866 in St Anicet, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada. Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) was the child of Angus John MACDONELL (MACDONALD) and Marie-Anne-Angelique PICOTE DE BELESTRE.

Elizabeth-Anne PICKEL died 19 October 1891 in Montréal, 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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Elizabeth-Anne PICKEL married

Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) MACDONELL-- Date: 10 January 1835 Place: Montréal, Lower Canada
Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) MACDONELL was the child of Angus John MACDONELL (MACDONALD) and Marie-Anne-Angelique PICOTE DE BELESTRE

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Children of Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) MACDONELL and Elizabeth-Anne PICKEL:

Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre MCDONELL (b.27 February 1841, Huntingdon, Canada East d. 10 November 1920, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
m. Mary Helena STEVENS 23 May 1866 in Bonsecours, Québec, Canada (Stukely-Nord) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-de-Stukely)

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1816 Birth
18 August 1816
Sorel, 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 Marriage / Partner
Elizabeth-Anne PICKEL and Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre (John) MACDONELL 10 January 1835, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

She was 18 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

1841 Birth of Child
Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre MCDONELL was born 27 February 1841, Huntingdon, Québec, Canada

Elizabeth-Anne was 24 years old.

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)

1866 Marriage of Child
Jean Francois Picotte De Bellestre MCDONELL married 23 May 1866, Bonsecours, Québec, Canada (Stukely-Nord) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-de-Stukely) to Mary Helena STEVENS

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.