Marguerite ST-PIERRE dite DESSAINT

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3 February 1832 , Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada

Died

26 April 1875 , Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Canada

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Francois DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE Marie-Anne LEBEL

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Born: 3 February 1832 in Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada

Father: Francois DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE

Mother: Marie-Anne LEBEL

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Raphaël ST-PIERRE dit DESSAINT , Madeleine-Catherine LANCOGNARD dite SANTERRE

Maternal grandparents: Nicolas LEBEL , Marguerite LAMBERT

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Marguerite married Louis BLANCHET 19 February 1849 in Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Louis BLANCHET was born abt. 1820 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Louis died 11 May 1899 in Ste-Rose-du-Dégelis, Quebec, Canada. Louis was the child of Louis BLANCHET and Genevieve GAGNÉ.

Marguerite ST-PIERRE dite DESSAINT died 26 April 1875 in Notre-Dame-du-Lac, 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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Marguerite ST-PIERRE dite DESSAINT married

Louis BLANCHET
Marriage date: 19 February 1849
Marriage place: Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Louis BLANCHET was the child of Louis BLANCHET and Genevieve GAGNÉ

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Children of Louis BLANCHET and Marguerite ST-PIERRE dite DESSAINT

Amanda (Emma) BLANCHET

Born: 20 February 1870, Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Temiscouata, Quebec, Canada
Died: 21 June 1948, St-Jean-de-la-Lande, Temiscouata, Canada

Married: Louis BERGERON 21 August 1893 Place: Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

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Birth — 1832
3 February 1832
Rivière-du-Loup, 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)

1849 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite ST-PIERRE dite DESSAINT and Louis BLANCHET 19 February 1849, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

She was 17 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.

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.

1870 Birth of Child
Amanda (Emma) BLANCHET was born 20 February 1870, Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Temiscouata, Quebec, Canada

Marguerite was 38 years old.

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