Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN

Born

23 September 1781 , La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

10 August 1872 , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN Marie Angelique Madeleine CLOUATRE

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Born: 23 September 1781 in La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN

Mother: Marie Angelique Madeleine CLOUATRE

Paternal grandparents: Jean Baptiste TRAHAN , Anne Marie HÉBERT

Maternal grandparents: Dominique CLOUATRE , Françoise BOUDROT (BOUDREAU)

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Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Josephe THERRIEN 30 September 1805 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Josephe THERRIEN was born 13 April 1785 in L'Acadie, Province of Québec, Canada . Marie-Josephe was the child of Joseph-Marie THERRIEN and Marguerite MOREAU.

Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN died 10 August 1872 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada .

m. Therrien Marie-Josephe

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Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN married

Marie-Josephe THERRIEN
Marriage date: 30 September 1805
Marriage place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Marie-Josephe THERRIEN was the child of Joseph-Marie THERRIEN and Marguerite MOREAU

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Children of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN and Marie-Josephe THERRIEN

Jacques TRAHAN

Born: 18 April 1812, L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Died: 18 October 1895, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

Married: Felicite HEBERT 21 October 1834 Place: Saint-Luc, Lower Canada

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1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1781
23 September 1781
La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

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

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

1805 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN and Marie-Josephe THERRIEN 30 September 1805, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

He was 24 years old.

1812 Birth of Child
Jacques TRAHAN was born 18 April 1812, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Jean-Baptiste was 30 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

1834 Marriage of Child
Jacques TRAHAN married 21 October 1834, Saint-Luc, Lower Canada to Felicite HEBERT

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.

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.