François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR

(b. 13 August 1815 , Yamaska, Lower Canada d. 4 August 1890 , Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada )

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François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR was born 13 August 1815 in Yamaska, Lower Canada

François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR was the child of Amable GERARD dit LAFLEUR and Archange BADAILLAC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Gabriel GIRARD dit LAFLEUR and Marie-Geneviève FORCIER (maternal) Pierre-Joseph BADAILLAC dit LAPLANTE (BADAYAC) and Marie-Anne ROBIDOU (ROBIDOUX)

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

François-Regis married Adelaide DUSSAULT 9 October 1838 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adelaide DUSSAULT was born 19 May 1815 in Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada. Adelaide died 8 March 1890 in Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada. Adelaide was the child of Jean Baptiste DUSSAULT and Marguerite GRENIER.

François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR died 4 August 1890 in Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada.

m. 9 Oct 1838 • Sorel, Quebec, Canada

Marie Adelaide Dussault

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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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François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR married

Adelaide DUSSAULT-- Date: 9 October 1838 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Adelaide DUSSAULT was the child of Jean Baptiste DUSSAULT and Marguerite GRENIER

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Children of François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR and Adelaide DUSSAULT:

Catherine LAFLEUR (b.September 1854, , Québec Province, Canada d. abt. 1934, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Alfred PELOQUIN 7 January 1874 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)

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1815 Birth
13 August 1815
Yamaska, 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

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
François-Regis GERARD dit LAFLEUR and Adelaide DUSSAULT 9 October 1838, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 23 years old.

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.

1854 Birth of Child
Catherine LAFLEUR was born September 1854, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

François-Regis was 39 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Marriage of Child
Catherine LAFLEUR married 7 January 1874, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville) to Alfred PELOQUIN

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)