Agathe VIAU

Born

17 May 1808 , Chambly, Lower Canada

Died

5 November 1888 , Stanbridge Station, Québec, Canada

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Joseph VIAU Marie-Marthe GRISE dite VILLEFRANCHE

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Born: 17 May 1808 in Chambly, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph VIAU

Mother: Marie-Marthe GRISE dite VILLEFRANCHE

Paternal grandparents: Laurent VIAU dit L'ESPÉRANCE , Marguerite BROUILLETTE

Maternal grandparents: Joseph-Antoine-Marie GRISE dit VILLEFRANCHE , Marie-Josephe MENARD

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Agathe married François DARAGON (DERAGON) 3 November 1829 in Chambly, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François DARAGON (DERAGON) was born 30 April 1808 in Chambly, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly). François died 12 April 1877 in Bedford, Québec, Canada (Saint-Damien). François was the child of François DARAGON dit LAFRANCE and Thérèse LEVREAU.

Agathe VIAU died 5 November 1888 in Stanbridge Station, 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
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Agathe VIAU married

François DARAGON (DERAGON)
Marriage date: 3 November 1829
Marriage place: Chambly, Lower Canada
François DARAGON (DERAGON) was the child of François DARAGON dit LAFRANCE and Thérèse LEVREAU

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Joseph DÉRAGON dit LAFRANCE

Born: 1 October 1835, Chambly, Lower Canada
Died: 3 October 1921, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Euphemie Phebee BRAULT 17 January 1860 Place: Henryville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Henryville)

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Birth — 1808
17 May 1808
Chambly, Lower Canada

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)

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

1829 Marriage / Partner
Agathe VIAU and François DARAGON (DERAGON) 3 November 1829, Chambly, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly)

She was 21 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Birth of Child
Joseph DÉRAGON dit LAFRANCE was born 1 October 1835, Chambly, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly)

Agathe was 27 years old.

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
Joseph DÉRAGON dit LAFRANCE married 17 January 1860, Henryville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Henryville) to Euphemie Phebee BRAULT

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.