Agale MELANCON

Born

8 March 1842 , Saint-Jacques, Canada East

Died

31 July 1887 , Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada

Age: 45
Cause of Death: Kitchen Fire

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François MELANCON Magne LANOUE

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Born: 8 March 1842 in Saint-Jacques, Canada East

Father: François MELANCON

Mother: Magne LANOUE

Paternal grandparents: Joseph MELANSON (MELANCON) , Judith RICHARD

Maternal grandparents: Pierre LANOUE , Felicite GALARNEAU

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Agale married François-Xavier CHAMPAGNE 27 April 1868 in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François-Xavier CHAMPAGNE was born 06 February 1849 in Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Québec, Canada. François-Xavier died 13 February 1926 in Lavigne, Ontario, Canada. François-Xavier was the child of Sulpice BEAUGRAND CHAMPAGNE and Venerande GUILBAULT.

Agale MELANCON died 31 July 1887 in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada .

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Recorded occupation: Housewife and Mother

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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Agale MELANCON married

François-Xavier CHAMPAGNE
Marriage date: 27 April 1868
Marriage place: Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada
François-Xavier CHAMPAGNE was the child of Sulpice BEAUGRAND CHAMPAGNE and Venerande GUILBAULT

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Children of François-Xavier CHAMPAGNE and Agale MELANCON

Edwina CHAMPAGNE

Born: 25 May 1881, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada
Died: 30 March 1966, Sturgeon Falls Old Hospital Ontario, Canada

Married: Joseph-Henri DAUPHINAIS 5 January 1904 Place: Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA

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Birth — 1842
8 March 1842
Saint-Jacques, Canada East

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)

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.

1868 Marriage / Partner
Agale MELANCON and François-Xavier CHAMPAGNE 27 April 1868, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada (Saint-Gabriel)

She was 26 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)

1881 Birth of Child
Edwina CHAMPAGNE was born 25 May 1881, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada (Saint-Gabriel)

Agale was 39 years old.

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)