Guillaume LOSIER dit DESJARDINS

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17 January 1806 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

20 December 1884 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

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Prospère ROY LOSIER dit DESJARDINS Charlotte LEBRETON

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Born: 17 January 1806 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Prospère ROY LOSIER dit DESJARDINS

Mother: Charlotte LEBRETON

Paternal grandparents: Augustin ROY dit DESJARDINS LAUZIER , Angélique LIZOTTE

Maternal grandparents: François-Rene ROBERT dit LEBRETON , Marie-Thérèse BOISSEL

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Guillaume married Olive ROBICHAUD 20 February 1827 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada . Olive ROBICHAUD was born 17 December 1809 in Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada . Olive died abt. 1893 Olive was the child of Jean-Baptiste ROBICHAUD and Theotiste SAVOIE.

Guillaume LOSIER dit DESJARDINS died 20 December 1884 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada .
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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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Olive ROBICHAUD
Marriage date: 20 February 1827
Marriage place: Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
Olive ROBICHAUD was the child of Jean-Baptiste ROBICHAUD and Theotiste SAVOIE

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Birth — 1806
17 January 1806
Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Guillaume LOSIER dit DESJARDINS - Baptism

Baptism

Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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

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 Marriage / Partner
Guillaume LOSIER dit DESJARDINS and Olive ROBICHAUD 20 February 1827, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

He was 21 years old.

Guillaume LOSIER dit DESJARDINS - 1827 marriage

1827 marriage

Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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)

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.