Joseph TROTTIER

(b. 24 February 1804 , Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada d. 24 November 1879 , St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada )

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Joseph TROTTIER was born 24 February 1804 in Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

Joseph TROTTIER was the child of Joseph TROTTIER and Marguerite BRUNET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Antoine TROTTIER and Marie-Joachine LEROUX (maternal) François BRUNET and Catherine LANGEVIN dite LACROIX

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Joseph married Genevieve LAUZON 7 January 1828 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Genevieve LAUZON was born 9 December 1802 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada. Genevieve died 20 December 1877 in St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada. Genevieve was the child of Pierre LAUZON and Marie-Anne PAIEMENT.

Joseph TROTTIER died 24 November 1879 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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Joseph TROTTIER married

Genevieve LAUZON-- Date: 7 January 1828 Place: Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada

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Genevieve LAUZON was the child of Pierre LAUZON and Marie-Anne PAIEMENT

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Children of Joseph TROTTIER and Genevieve LAUZON:

Olivier TROTTIER (b.14 January 1834, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada d. 29 November 1896, St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada)
m. Theotiste LAUZON 19 February 1855 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

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1804 Birth
24 February 1804
Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

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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 TROTTIER and Genevieve LAUZON 7 January 1828, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1834 Birth of Child
Olivier TROTTIER was born 14 January 1834, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

Joseph was 29 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.

1855 Marriage of Child
Olivier TROTTIER married 19 February 1855, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada to Theotiste LAUZON

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.