Antoine DESROCHERS (DUROCHER)

Born

8 May 1805 , Les Cèdres, Lower Canada

Died

11 April 1873 , Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

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Antoine DESROCHERS (DUROCHER)Marie-Anne MIVILLE

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Born: 8 May 1805 in Les Cèdres, Lower Canada

Father: Antoine DESROCHERS (DUROCHER)

Mother: Marie-Anne MIVILLE

Paternal grandparents: Pierre DESROCHERS dit LAFLEUR , Marie-Amable MAURICE dite LAFANTASIE

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Gabriel MIVILLE , Marie-Anne RODRIGUE

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Antoine married Esther LUSSIER 13 February 1827 in Montréal, Lower Canada . Esther LUSSIER was born 30 March 1799 in Varennes, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes). Esther died 24 September 1862 in Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac). Esther was the child of Christophe LUSSIER and Josephte MESSIER dite ST-FRANÇOIS.

Antoine DESROCHERS (DUROCHER) died 11 April 1873 in Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Antoine DESROCHERS (DUROCHER) married

Esther LUSSIER
Marriage date: 13 February 1827
Marriage place: Montréal, Lower Canada
Esther LUSSIER was the child of Christophe LUSSIER and Josephte MESSIER dite ST-FRANÇOIS

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Birth — 1805
8 May 1805
Les Cèdres, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Antoine DESROCHERS (DUROCHER) and Esther LUSSIER 13 February 1827, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

He was 21 years old.

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

1862 Death of Spouse/Partner
Esther LUSSIER died 24 September 1862, Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac)

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.