Emerence LESSARD

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15 June 1825 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Died

1 January 1886 , Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Georges LESSARD Anastasie CHORET

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Born: 15 June 1825 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Father: Georges LESSARD

Mother: Anastasie CHORET

Paternal grandparents: Georges Ignace LESSARD ZILIAC , Marie-Catherine COUTURIER

Maternal grandparents: Francois CHORET , Euphrosine PARENT

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Emerence married Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS 11 April 1854 in Québec, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS was born 17 May 1820 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice). Joseph died 1 August 1898 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Joseph was the child of Alexandre DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE and Modeste DUBE.

Emerence LESSARD died 1 January 1886 in Montréal, 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.

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Emerence LESSARD married

Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS
Marriage date: 11 April 1854
Marriage place: Québec, Canada East
Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS was the child of Alexandre DESROSIERS dit DUTREMBLE and Modeste DUBE

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Children of Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS and Emerence LESSARD

Maxime TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS

Born: 4 February 1851, Cap-St-Ignace, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Josephine CLOUTIER 7 October 1872 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Birth — 1825
15 June 1825
Kamouraska, Lower Canada

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)

1851 Birth of Child
Maxime TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS was born 4 February 1851, Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola)

Emerence was 25 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.

1854 Marriage / Partner
Emerence LESSARD and Joseph TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS 11 April 1854, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

She was 28 years old.

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.

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.

1872 Marriage of Child
Maxime TREMBLAY dit DESROSIERS married 7 October 1872, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Josephine CLOUTIER

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

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)

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)