Olivier TROTTIER

(b. 14 January 1834 , Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada d. 29 November 1896 , St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada )

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Olivier TROTTIER was born 14 January 1834 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada

Olivier TROTTIER was the child of Joseph TROTTIER and Genevieve LAUZON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph TROTTIER and Marguerite BRUNET (maternal) Pierre LAUZON and Marie-Anne PAIEMENT

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Olivier married Theotiste LAUZON 19 February 1855 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Theotiste LAUZON was born 15 December 1835 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada. Theotiste died 17 December 1914 in St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada. Theotiste was the child of Leon LAUZON and Marie-Louise USEREAU (HUSERAU).

Olivier TROTTIER died 29 November 1896 in St-Joseph-du-Lac, 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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Olivier TROTTIER married

Theotiste LAUZON-- Date: 19 February 1855 Place: Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Canada East
Theotiste LAUZON was the child of Leon LAUZON and Marie-Louise USEREAU (HUSERAU)

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Children of Olivier TROTTIER and Theotiste LAUZON:

Victoire TROTTIER (b.15 March 1870, St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada d. 6 April 1897, St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada)
m. Osias DAOUST 15 October 1894 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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1834 Birth
14 January 1834
Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, 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
Olivier TROTTIER and Theotiste LAUZON 19 February 1855, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

He was 21 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

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.

1870 Birth of Child
Victoire TROTTIER was born 15 March 1870, St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada

Olivier was 36 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

1894 Marriage of Child
Victoire TROTTIER married 15 October 1894, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Osias DAOUST

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada