Theotiste PARADIS

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8 February 1809 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Died

5 October 1871 , Kamouraska, Québec, Canada

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Ignace PARADIS Marie-Desanges OUELLET

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Born: 8 February 1809 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Father: Ignace PARADIS

Mother: Marie-Desanges OUELLET

Paternal grandparents: Joseph-Antoine PARADIS , Marie-Therese LEVESQUE

Maternal grandparents: Francois OUELLET , Dorothee MOREAU

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Theotiste married Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS 28 February 1832 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS was born 10 December 1796 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Antoine died 29 October 1888 in Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis). Antoine was the child of Joseph-Marie ROY dit DESJARDINS and Marie-Reine CHOUINARD.

Theotiste PARADIS died 5 October 1871 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Theotiste PARADIS married

Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS
Marriage date: 28 February 1832
Marriage place: Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS was the child of Joseph-Marie ROY dit DESJARDINS and Marie-Reine CHOUINARD

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Children of Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS and Theotiste PARADIS

François-Xavier ROY dit DESJARDINS

Born: 5 December 1832, Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Died: 6 June 1919, St-Germain, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

Married: Virginie GAGNON 23 February 1857 Place: Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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Birth — 1809
8 February 1809
Kamouraska, 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)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Marriage / Partner
Theotiste PARADIS and Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS 28 February 1832, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

She was 23 years old.

1832 Birth of Child
François-Xavier ROY dit DESJARDINS was born 5 December 1832, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

Theotiste was 23 years old.

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.

1857 Marriage of Child
François-Xavier ROY dit DESJARDINS married 23 February 1857, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre) to Virginie GAGNON

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.