Josephine GAGNON

(b. 17 September 1830 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada d. 21 January 1872 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Josephine GAGNON was born 17 September 1830 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada

Josephine GAGNON was the child of Louis-Marc GAGNON and Angelique SAVARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Marc GAGNON and Marie-Augustine BOUCHARD (maternal) Francois SAVARD and Marie-Rosalie BRISSON

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

Josephine married Philippe COTE 26 October 1852 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Philippe COTE was born 19 February 1832 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Philippe died 21 March 1894 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Philippe was the child of Jean-Baptiste COTE and Marguerite GAGNÉ.

Josephine GAGNON died 21 January 1872 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada .
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Did you know that most people with the Gagnon name came from three sons of Pierre Gagnon (Gaignon) and Renee Roger of Tourouvre, France, who came to New France (Quebec) around 1637? Mathurin, Jean and Pierre Gagnon, along with their wives did much to populate North America with the proud Gagnon surname!

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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Josephine GAGNON married

Philippe COTE-- Date: 26 October 1852 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Canada East

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Philippe COTE was the child of Jean-Baptiste COTE and Marguerite GAGNÉ

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Children of Philippe COTE and Josephine GAGNON:

George Ernest COTE (b.30 October 1861, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 21 February 1916, Deering, New Hampshire, USA )
m. Eloise COTE 5 February 1883 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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1830 Birth
17 September 1830
Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada

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.

1852 Marriage / Partner
Josephine GAGNON and Philippe COTE 26 October 1852, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

She was 22 years old.

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

1861 Birth of Child
George Ernest COTE was born 30 October 1861, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Josephine was 31 years old.

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.