Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR

(b. 2 October 1790 , Saint-Eustache, Province of Québec, Canada d. 15 September 1878 , Ste-Marguerite, Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada )

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Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR was born 2 October 1790 in Saint-Eustache, Province of Québec, Canada

Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR was the child of Michel BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR and Ursule SAUVE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel BIROLEAU and Marguerite VILLERAY (maternal) Basile-Amable SAUVE and Marie-Josephe-Marianne PROULX

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Joachim married Marguerite LEGAULT dite DESLAURIERS 1 May 1820 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite LEGAULT dite DESLAURIERS was born 26 August 1796 in Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Marguerite died abt. 1856 in Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Québec, Canada. Marguerite was the child of Antoine LEGAULT dit DESLAURIERS and Eulalie-Angelique IMBEAULT.

Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR died 15 September 1878 in Ste-Marguerite, Terrebonne, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR

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Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR married

Marguerite LEGAULT dite DESLAURIERS-- Date: 1 May 1820 Place: Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada
Marguerite LEGAULT dite DESLAURIERS was the child of Antoine LEGAULT dit DESLAURIERS and Eulalie-Angelique IMBEAULT

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Children of Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR and Marguerite LEGAULT dite DESLAURIERS:

Delphine BIROLEAU dite LAFLEUR (b.24 September 1827, Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Lower Canada d. 30 December 1919, Lachute, Québec, Canada)
m. Felix DESJARDINS 24 August 1847 in Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

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1790 Birth
2 October 1790
Saint-Eustache, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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 Marriage / Partner
Joachim BIROLEAU dit LAFLEUR and Marguerite LEGAULT dite DESLAURIERS 1 May 1820, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

He was 29 years old.

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)

1827 Birth of Child
Delphine BIROLEAU dite LAFLEUR was born 24 September 1827, Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

Joachim was 37 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

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)

1847 Marriage of Child
Delphine BIROLEAU dite LAFLEUR married 24 August 1847, Sainte-Scholastique, Mirabel, Québec, Canada to Felix DESJARDINS

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.