Toussaint DESJARDINS

(b. abt. 1835 , Québec Province, Canada d. 21 May 1870 , Montréal, Québec, Canada )

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Toussaint DESJARDINS was born abt. 1835 in Québec Province, Canada

Toussaint DESJARDINS was the child of Paul DESJARDINS and Marguerite FREDEMBERG and the grandchild of: (paternal) Francois DESJARDINS and Marie-Anne THERRIEN (maternal) Christian FRIEDENBERG (FRIDEMBERG) and Marguerite HAMEL dite MANÈGRE

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

Toussaint married Marie-Octavis L'ETOILE dite L'ITALIEN . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Octavis L'ETOILE dite L'ITALIEN was born 20 June 1833 in Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada (Pierrefonds)*. Marie-Octavis was the child of Charles L'ETOILE dit L'ITALIEN and Scholastique ROLLIN.

Toussaint DESJARDINS died 21 May 1870 in Montréal, Québec, 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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Toussaint DESJARDINS married

Marie-Octavis L'ETOILE dite L'ITALIEN-- Place:
Marie-Octavis L'ETOILE dite L'ITALIEN was the child of Charles L'ETOILE dit L'ITALIEN and Scholastique ROLLIN

Children of Toussaint DESJARDINS and Marie-Octavis L'ETOILE dite L'ITALIEN:

Rose-Delima DESJARDINS (b.22 November 1866, Montréal, Canada East d. 1 October 1929, Montréal, Québec, Canada )
m. Amable GROULX 20 November 1888 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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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

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
Rose-Delima DESJARDINS was born 22 November 1866, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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.