Joseph MASSICOTTE

Born

2 May 1798 , Batiscan, Lower Canada

Died

4 February 1876 , Yamachiche, Québec, Canada

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François MASSICOTTE Marie-Anne FRIGON

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Born: 2 May 1798 in Batiscan, Lower Canada

Father: François MASSICOTTE

Mother: Marie-Anne FRIGON

Paternal grandparents: Charles MASSICOTTE , Françoise RIVARD dite LACOURSIERE

Maternal grandparents: Antoine-Pierre FRIGON , Marie-Anne TROTTIER

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Joseph married Marie-Benonie BASTARACHE 26 January 1818 in Yamachiche, Lower Canada . Marie-Benonie BASTARACHE was born 24 April 1802 in Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche). Marie-Benonie died 15 February 1840 in St-Prosper, Champlain, Quebec, Canada. Marie-Benonie was the child of Joseph BASTARACHE and Françoise LESIEUR.

Joseph MASSICOTTE died 4 February 1876 in Yamachiche, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Marie-Benonie BASTARACHE
Marriage date: 26 January 1818
Marriage place: Yamachiche, Lower Canada

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Birth — 1798
2 May 1798
Batiscan, 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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Joseph MASSICOTTE and Marie-Benonie BASTARACHE 26 January 1818, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche)

He was 19 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)

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

1840 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Benonie BASTARACHE died 15 February 1840, St-Prosper, Champlain, Quebec, Canada

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)

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.