Alexandre PREFONTAINE dit FOURNIER

(b. 6 November 1830 , Beloeil, Lower Canada d. 17 April 1874 , Beloeil, Québec, Canada )

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Alexandre PREFONTAINE dit FOURNIER was born 6 November 1830 in Beloeil, Lower Canada

Alexandre PREFONTAINE dit FOURNIER was the child of Joseph FOURNIER dit PRÉFONTAINE and Angélique BEAUDRY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph FOURNIER dit PREFONTAINE and Angélique BRODEUR (maternal) Joseph-Louis BEAUDRY and Archange BRODEUR dite LAVIGNE

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Alexandre married Aurelie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME 11 October 1852 in Beloeil, Canada East . Aurelie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME was born 11 January 1832 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada (Saint-Hilaire). Aurelie was the child of Prudent GABORIAULT dit LAPALME and Domithilde HEBERT dite LAMBERT.

Alexandre PREFONTAINE dit FOURNIER died 17 April 1874 in Beloeil, Québec, Canada .

m. Gaboriault Aurelie

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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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Aurelie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME-- Date: 11 October 1852 Place: Beloeil, Canada East
Aurelie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME was the child of Prudent GABORIAULT dit LAPALME and Domithilde HEBERT dite LAMBERT

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1830 Birth
6 November 1830
Beloeil, Lower Canada

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.

1852 Marriage / Partner
Alexandre PREFONTAINE dit FOURNIER and Aurelie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME 11 October 1852, Beloeil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil)

He was 21 years old.

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.