Alexandre DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE

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29 June 1784 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

abt. 1871 , St-Léonard-Parent, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada

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Alexandre DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE Modeste FOURNIER

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Born: 29 June 1784 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Alexandre DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE

Mother: Modeste FOURNIER

Paternal grandparents: Joseph DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE , Marie-Anne ST-PIERRE

Maternal grandparents: Louis FOURNIER , Madeleine JEAN dite PIERRE

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Alexandre married Modeste DUBE 21 August 1809 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Modeste DUBE was born 25 July 1792 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada. Modeste was the child of Jean-Baptiste DUBE and Veronique FOURNIER.

Alexandre DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE died abt. 1871 in St-Léonard-Parent, Madawaska, New Brunswick, 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.

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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Modeste DUBE
Marriage date: 21 August 1809
Marriage place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada
Modeste DUBE was the child of Jean-Baptiste DUBE and Veronique FOURNIER

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Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS

Born: 17 May 1820, Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada
Died: 1 August 1898, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Emerence LESSARD 11 April 1854 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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Birth — 1784
29 June 1784
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, 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)

1809 Marriage / Partner
Alexandre DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE and Modeste DUBE 21 August 1809, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

He was 25 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

1820 Birth of Child
Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS was born 17 May 1820, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Alexandre was 35 years old.

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

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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS married 11 April 1854, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Emerence LESSARD

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.