Joseph DESAUTELS

Born

1 January 1808 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

10 April 1877 , Québec Province, Canada

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Amable DESAUTELS Marie-Marguerite DAVID

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Born: 1 January 1808 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Amable DESAUTELS

Mother: Marie-Marguerite DAVID

Paternal grandparents: Etienne DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE , Catherine PRUD'HOMME

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste DAVID , Marie-Madeleine CHARTRAND

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Joseph married Angele THEMENS 4 February 1828 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Angele THEMENS was born abt. 1808 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Angele was the child of Noel THEMENS (TAIMONDS) and Marie-Elisabeth BOUCHER.

Joseph DESAUTELS died 10 April 1877 in Québec Province, 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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Joseph DESAUTELS married

Angele THEMENS
Marriage date: 4 February 1828
Marriage place: , Québec Province, Canada
Angele THEMENS was the child of Noel THEMENS (TAIMONDS) and Marie-Elisabeth BOUCHER

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Children of Joseph DESAUTELS and Angele THEMENS

Marie Theodee Adele DESAUTELS

Born: abt. 1840,
Died: ,

Married: Jean LEMAY 25 February 1862 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Birth — 1808
1 January 1808
Québec Province, 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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Joseph DESAUTELS and Angele THEMENS 4 February 1828, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

He was 20 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 Marriage of Child
Marie Theodee Adele DESAUTELS married 25 February 1862, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Jean LEMAY

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.