Catherine DESGAGNES

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12 March 1808 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

May 1893 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada

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Germain DESGAGNES Geneviève PERRON

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Born: 12 March 1808 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Germain DESGAGNES

Mother: Geneviève PERRON

Paternal grandparents: Joseph DESGAGNES , Marie-Thecle TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents: Alexis PERRON , Charlotte HERVE (HARVEY)

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Catherine married Pierre-Emmanuel AUDET dit LAPOINTE 13 November 1827 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 9 children.
Pierre-Emmanuel AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 12 February 1802 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Pierre-Emmanuel died August 1863 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Pierre-Emmanuel was the child of Pierre-Joseph-Andre AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Felicite BOUCHARD.

Catherine DESGAGNES died May 1893 in Isle-aux-Coudres, 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.

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Catherine DESGAGNES married

Pierre-Emmanuel AUDET dit LAPOINTE
Marriage date: 13 November 1827
Marriage place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Pierre-Emmanuel AUDET dit LAPOINTE was the child of Pierre-Joseph-Andre AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Felicite BOUCHARD

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Children of Pierre-Emmanuel AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Catherine DESGAGNES

Catherine-Agnes AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Born: abt. 1828, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 31 July 1919, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada

Married: Francois TREMBLAY 27 November 1848 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Valerie AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Born: 28 April 1831, Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Died: 1 December 1919, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada

Agalee AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Born: abt. 1832, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Nazaire TREMBLAY 21 January 1862 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Symphorien AUDET dit LAPOINTE

Born: 22 March 1833, Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Died: 10 January 1882, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada

Married: Obeline TREMBLAY 7 February 1860 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Olivier LAPOINTE dit AUDET

Born: 20 June 1834, Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Died: 11 June 1909, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada

Angele-Merici LAPOINTE dite AUDET

Born: 23 June 1836, Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Died: 17 September 1880, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada

Germain LAPOINTE dit AUDET

Born: 4 July 1838, Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Died: 30 May 1913, St-Siméon, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada

Georges LAPOINTE dit AUDET

Born: 3 November 1841, Isle-aux-Coudres, Canada East
Died: 28 February 1935, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada

Malvina LAPOINTE

Born: 8 July 1851, Isle-aux-Coudres, Canada East
Died: 4 July 1908, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada

Married: Cleophas TREMBLAY 1 February 1876 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

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Birth — 1808
12 March 1808
Québec Province, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Catherine DESGAGNES and Pierre-Emmanuel AUDET dit LAPOINTE 13 November 1827, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

She was 19 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1831 Birth of Child
Valerie AUDET dite LAPOINTE was born 28 April 1831, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 23 years old.

1833 Birth of Child
Symphorien AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 22 March 1833, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 25 years old.

1834 Birth of Child
Olivier LAPOINTE dit AUDET was born 20 June 1834, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 26 years old.

1836 Birth of Child
Angele-Merici LAPOINTE dite AUDET was born 23 June 1836, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 28 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

1838 Birth of Child
Germain LAPOINTE dit AUDET was born 4 July 1838, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 30 years old.

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

1841 Birth of Child
Georges LAPOINTE dit AUDET was born 3 November 1841, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 33 years old.

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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Catherine-Agnes AUDET dite LAPOINTE married 27 November 1848, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres) to Francois TREMBLAY

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1851 Birth of Child
Malvina LAPOINTE was born 8 July 1851, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 43 years old.

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
Symphorien AUDET dit LAPOINTE married 7 February 1860, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres) to Obeline TREMBLAY

1862 Marriage of Child
Agalee AUDET dite LAPOINTE married 21 January 1862, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres) to Nazaire TREMBLAY

1863 Death of Spouse/Partner
Pierre-Emmanuel AUDET dit LAPOINTE died August 1863, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 Marriage of Child
Malvina LAPOINTE married 1 February 1876, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres) to Cleophas TREMBLAY

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1880 Death of Child
Angele-Merici LAPOINTE dite AUDET died 17 September 1880, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 72 years old.

1882 Death of Child
Symphorien AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 10 January 1882, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Catherine was 73 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

Death — 1893
May 1893
Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 85.

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