Pierre ST PIERRE dit DESSAINT

Born

13 December 1795 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Died

abt. 1878 , Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Marie ST PIERRE dit DESSAINT Marguerite BELANGER

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Born: 13 December 1795 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Marie ST PIERRE dit DESSAINT

Mother: Marguerite BELANGER

Paternal grandparents: Xainte-Marie-Louis ST-PIERRE dit DESSAINT , Angélique COUTURIER

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Gabriel BELANGER , Marie-Victoire BERNIER

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Pierre married Basilisse BOIS 4 February 1823 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Basilisse BOIS was born 13 October 1805 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada. Basilisse died 6 October 1876 in Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska, Québec, Canada. Basilisse was the child of Francois BOIS and Veronique DUBE.

Pierre ST PIERRE dit DESSAINT died abt. 1878 in Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska, 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.

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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Pierre ST PIERRE dit DESSAINT married

Basilisse BOIS
Marriage date: 4 February 1823
Marriage place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada
Basilisse BOIS was the child of Francois BOIS and Veronique DUBE

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Children of Pierre ST PIERRE dit DESSAINT and Basilisse BOIS

Jean-Marie DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE

Born: 18 January 1829, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Alvina PELLETIER 10 January 1860 Place: Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1795
13 December 1795
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

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 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1823 Marriage / Partner
Pierre ST PIERRE dit DESSAINT and Basilisse BOIS 4 February 1823, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

He was 27 years old.

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)

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

1829 Birth of Child
Jean-Marie DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE was born 18 January 1829, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre)

Pierre was 33 years old.

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)

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

1860 Marriage of Child
Jean-Marie DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE married 10 January 1860, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada to Alvina PELLETIER

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.