Leocadie TALON

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29 March 1813 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

12 September 1892 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

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Isidore TALON Madeleine CUNNINGHAM

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Born: 29 March 1813 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Isidore TALON

Mother: Madeleine CUNNINGHAM

Paternal grandparents: Augustin TALON , Marie-Olive DESPRÉS dite GUY

Maternal grandparents: Christophe CUNNINGHAM , Ursule LAVOIE

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Leocadie married Dominique GAGNON 8 January 1828 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Dominique GAGNON was born 4 October 1803 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Dominique was the child of Agapit GAGNON and Elisabeth MCNICOLL.

Leocadie TALON died 12 September 1892 in Chicoutimi, 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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Leocadie TALON married

Dominique GAGNON
Marriage date: 8 January 1828
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Dominique GAGNON was the child of Agapit GAGNON and Elisabeth MCNICOLL

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Children of Dominique GAGNON and Leocadie TALON

Elisabeth GAGNON

Born: 30 August 1831, La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Abel BRASSARD 12 June 1848 Place: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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Birth — 1813
29 March 1813
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Leocadie TALON and Dominique GAGNON 8 January 1828, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 14 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1831 Birth of Child
Elisabeth GAGNON was born 30 August 1831, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Leocadie was 18 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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Elisabeth GAGNON married 12 June 1848, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Abel BRASSARD

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.