François-Xavier LAVOIE

Born

10/1/1820 , Rimouski, Lower Canada

Died

03/31/1889 , Ste Blandine de Rimouski, Quebec, Canada

Age: 79

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Jean-René LAVOIE Anne BOUILLON

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Born: 10/1/1820 in Rimouski, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-René LAVOIE

Mother: Anne BOUILLON

Paternal grandparents: Joseph LAVOIE , Charlotte GAGNON

Maternal grandparents: Jacques BOUILLON , Marie-Catherine LANDAIS

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François-Xavier married Esther PAQUET 21 March 1862 in Rimouski, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Esther PAQUET was born 05/17/1845 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Esther died 09/19/1919 in Ste Blandine de Rimousski, Quebec, Canada. Esther was the child of Prisque-Arsene PAQUET and Euphemie BOUILLON.

François-Xavier LAVOIE died 03/31/1889 in Ste Blandine de Rimouski, Quebec, 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 François-Xavier LAVOIE

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François-Xavier LAVOIE married

Esther PAQUET
Marriage date: 21 March 1862
Marriage place: Rimouski, Canada East
Esther PAQUET was the child of Prisque-Arsene PAQUET and Euphemie BOUILLON

Marriage notes:

Mariage ou union de fait

Francois 41 ans & Esther 17 ans

29 septembre 1862

Rimouski, St-Germain, Québec

Canada

avec PÂQUET Esther :

Mariage :

Date : 29 septembre 1862

Lieu : Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec

enfants :

LAVOIE Aglaée (1863 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec - 1872 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec)

LAVOIE Hortense (1865 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec)

LAVOIE Joseph (1866 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec)

LAVOIE Marie-Désirée (1868 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec)

LAVOIE Vital (1870 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec - 1951 Saint-Narcisse (Rimouski), Québec)

LAVOIE Ulric-Thomas-Lucien (1872 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec - 1968 Saint-Narcisse (Rimouski), Québec)

LAVOIE Louis (1872)

LAVOIE Anonyme (1874 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec - 1874 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec)

LAVOIE Alfred (1875 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec)

LAVOIE Jacob (1877 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec)

LAVOIE Alphonse (1879 Sainte-Blandine, Rimouski, Québec)

LAVOIE Marie-Anne (1882 Rimouski (Saint-Germain), Québec - 1918 Sainte-Blandine, Rimouski, Québec)

LAVOIE David (1884 Valleyfield, Beauharnois, Québec - 1967 Rimouski, Québec)

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Children of François-Xavier LAVOIE and Esther PAQUET

Alphonse LAVOIE

Born: abt. 1879, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 24 July 1950, Québec, Québec, Canada

Married: Aglaé DECHAMPLAIN 26 August 1931

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Birth — 1820
10/1/1820
Rimouski, Lower Canada

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

1862 Marriage / Partner
François-Xavier LAVOIE and Esther PAQUET 21 March 1862, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

He was 41 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.