Tharsile COURCHESNE

Born

17 June 1833 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Died

26 April 1898 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

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Alexandre COURCHESNE Marie BOUCHER

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Born: 17 June 1833 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Father: Alexandre COURCHESNE

Mother: Marie BOUCHER

Paternal grandparents: Antoine FOUCAULT dit COURCHESNE , Catherine PROULX

Maternal grandparents: Denis-Joseph BOUCHER dit DESROSIERS , Thérèse-Tharsile AUGER

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Tharsile married Isaie CAYA 9 January 1855 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Isaie CAYA was born 4 June 1827 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Isaie died 25 October 1903 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Isaie was the child of Joseph CAYA dit MADRAN and Marguerite HOUDE.

Tharsile COURCHESNE died 26 April 1898 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada .
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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.

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Spouse & Children of Tharsile COURCHESNE

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Tharsile COURCHESNE married

Isaie CAYA
Marriage date: 9 January 1855
Marriage place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Isaie CAYA was the child of Joseph CAYA dit MADRAN and Marguerite HOUDE

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Children of Isaie CAYA and Tharsile COURCHESNE

Marie-Vitaline CAYA

Born: 7 June 1856, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: 8 January 1900, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

Anastasie CAYA

Born: 28 April 1863, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: 28 March 1917, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

George CAYA

Born: abt. 1866, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Homére CAYA

Born: abt. 1870, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Joseph-Eugene CAYA

Born: 7 March 1872, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada
Died: ,

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Birth — 1833
17 June 1833
Baie-du-Fèbvre, 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.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Tharsile COURCHESNE and Isaie CAYA 9 January 1855, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

She was 21 years old.

1856 Birth of Child
Marie-Vitaline CAYA was born 7 June 1856, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Tharsile was 22 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

1863 Birth of Child
Anastasie CAYA was born 28 April 1863, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Tharsile was 29 years old.

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.

1872 Birth of Child
Joseph-Eugene CAYA was born 7 March 1872, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Tharsile was 38 years old.

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

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)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada