Joseph DÉSILETS

Born

28 November 1807 , Québec, Lower Canada

Died

15 August 1888 , Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada

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Joseph DÉSILETS Marie-Judith CORMIER

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Born: 28 November 1807 in Québec, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph DÉSILETS

Mother: Marie-Judith CORMIER

Paternal grandparents: Antoine DÉSILETS , Madeleine BIGOT

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste CORMIER , Marie-Angélique DUCHARME dite PROVENCHER

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Joseph married Marie BAUDON 4 August 1829 in Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie BAUDON was born 14 November 1811 in Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*. Marie died 13 December 1836 in Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*. Marie was the child of Joseph BAUDON dit LARIVIERE and Marie-Anne BERGERON.

Joseph DÉSILETS died 15 August 1888 in Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, 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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Joseph DÉSILETS married

Marie BAUDON
Marriage date: 4 August 1829
Marriage place: Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada
Marie BAUDON was the child of Joseph BAUDON dit LARIVIERE and Marie-Anne BERGERON

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Children of Joseph DÉSILETS and Marie BAUDON

Charles-Gamélicès DESILETS

Born: 17 July 1833, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada
Died: 25 July 1901, Saint-Samuel-de-Horton, Saint-Samuel, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada

Married: Marie-Éléonore GAGNON 28 January 1856 Place: Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*

Married: Elizabeth ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU) 23 April 1861 Place: Saint-Célestin, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1807
28 November 1807
Québec, 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)

1829 Marriage / Partner
Joseph DÉSILETS and Marie BAUDON 4 August 1829, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*

He was 21 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1833 Birth of Child
Charles-Gamélicès DESILETS was born 17 July 1833, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*

Joseph was 25 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie BAUDON died 13 December 1836, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*

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 of Child
Charles-Gamélicès DESILETS married 28 January 1856, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)* to Marie-Éléonore GAGNON

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

1861 Marriage of Child
Charles-Gamélicès DESILETS married 23 April 1861, Saint-Célestin, Québec, Canada to Elizabeth ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU)

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.