François CHAGNON

Born

18 August 1788 , Verchères, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

1 June 1872 , Saint-Marc-de-Cournoyer, Canada

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Born: 18 August 1788 in Verchères, Province of Québec, Canada

Parents of François CHAGNON

Father

Louis CHAGNON

Mother

Marie-Louise ROLLAND

Grandparents of François CHAGNON

Paternal grandparents

Antoine CHAGNON Marie-Françoise PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE

Maternal grandparents

Jean-Pierre ROLLAND Marie-Josephte GUERTIN

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

François married Reine DESMARAIS 8 May 1815 in Saint-Marc-de-Cournoyer, Verchères, Quebec, Canada . Reine DESMARAIS was born 12 November 1793 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada. Reine was the child of Pierre-Paul DESMARAIS and Marie-Françoise TRUDEAU.

François CHAGNON died 1 June 1872 in Saint-Marc-de-Cournoyer, Canada.
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of François CHAGNON

François CHAGNON married

Reine DESMARAIS
Marriage date: 8 May 1815
Marriage place: Saint-Marc-de-Cournoyer, Verchères, Quebec, Canada
Source: Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal

Reine DESMARAIS was the child of Pierre-Paul DESMARAIS and Marie-Françoise TRUDEAU

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of François CHAGNON and Reine DESMARAIS

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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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 — 1788
18 August 1788
Verchères, Province of Québec, Canada

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)

1815 Marriage / Partner
François CHAGNON and Reine DESMARAIS 8 May 1815, Saint-Marc-de-Cournoyer, Verchères, Quebec, Canada

He was 26 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

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.