Marie-Anne DESROSIERS

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12 December 1791 , Lanoraie, Lower Canada

Died

10 October 1874 , Lanoraie, Québec, Canada

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Joseph LANIEL dit DESROSIERS Marie-Anne BRASSARD

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Born: 12 December 1791 in Lanoraie, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph LANIEL dit DESROSIERS

Mother: Marie-Anne BRASSARD

Paternal grandparents: Alexis LANIEL dit DESROSIERS , Reine COURTIN dite SANSCHAGRIN

Maternal grandparents: Joseph BRASSARD dit BORDET , Marie-Anne PARIS dite FORTIN

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Marie-Anne married Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY 11 January 1813 in Lavaltrie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY was born 3 January 1789 in Lavaltrie, Province of Québec, Canada . Charles was the child of Antoine-Toussaint GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY and Genevieve HARNOIS.

Marie-Anne DESROSIERS died 10 October 1874 in Lanoraie, Québec, Canada .
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Marie-Anne DESROSIERS married

Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY
Marriage date: 11 January 1813
Marriage place: Lavaltrie, Lower Canada
Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY was the child of Antoine-Toussaint GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY and Genevieve HARNOIS

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Children of Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY and Marie-Anne DESROSIERS

Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY

Born: abt. 1820, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Fabien DESROSIERS 29 September 1840 Place: Lavaltrie, Lower Canada

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1791
12 December 1791
Lanoraie, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1813 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Anne DESROSIERS and Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY 11 January 1813 , Lavaltrie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine)

She was 21 years old.

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

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

1840 Marriage of Child
Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY married 29 September 1840 , Lavaltrie, Lower Canada to Fabien DESROSIERS

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.

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.