Toussaint LEGRAND

Born

24 November 1790 , La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

6 December 1873 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Toussaint LEGRAND

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Born: 24 November 1790 in La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

Parents of Toussaint LEGRAND

Father

Jacques LEGRAND

Mother

Catherine LAMARRE

Grandparents of Toussaint LEGRAND

Paternal grandparents

Jacques LEGRAND Madeleine PROVOST (PREVOST)

Maternal grandparents

Joseph-Marie LAMARRE Marie-Joseph GADOIS

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

Toussaint married Marie-Josephte POUPART 8 January 1810 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Josephte POUPART was born 23 September 1791 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . Marie-Josephte died 15 July 1873 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada . Marie-Josephte was the child of Joseph POUPART and Marie-Josephe MONET.

Toussaint LEGRAND died 6 December 1873 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Toussaint LEGRAND

Toussaint LEGRAND married

Marie-Josephte POUPART
Marriage date: 8 January 1810
Marriage place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Marie-Josephte POUPART was the child of Joseph POUPART and Marie-Josephe MONET

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Toussaint LEGRAND and Marie-Josephte POUPART

Marie-Zoe LEGRAND

Born: 3 September 1829, La Prairie, Lower Canada
Died: 31 January 1891, La Prairie, Québec, Canada

Married: Edouard TREMBLAY 30 June 1846 Place: La Prairie, Canada East

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1790
24 November 1790
La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1810 Marriage / Partner
Toussaint LEGRAND and Marie-Josephte POUPART 8 January 1810, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 19 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Marie-Zoe LEGRAND was born 3 September 1829, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Toussaint was 38 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)

1846 Marriage of Child
Marie-Zoe LEGRAND married 30 June 1846, La Prairie, Canada East to Edouard TREMBLAY

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.