Josephte MESSIER

(b. 19 October 1808 , Beloeil, Lower Canada d. 30 December 1893 , Yamaska, Québec, Canada )

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Josephte MESSIER was born 19 October 1808 in Beloeil, Lower Canada

Josephte MESSIER was the child of Charles MESSIER and Josephte ADAM and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph MESSIER and Marie-Anne GODU (maternal) Joseph ADAM and Marie-Angelique BISSONNETTE

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Josephte married Francois-Regis VANASSE 15 September 1829 in Yamaska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Francois-Regis VANASSE was born 7 June 1807 in Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska). Francois-Regis died 23 May 1880 in Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska). Francois-Regis was the child of Francois-Regis VANASSE and Agathe FORCIER.

Josephte MESSIER died 30 December 1893 in Yamaska, 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
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Josephte MESSIER married

Francois-Regis VANASSE-- Date: 15 September 1829 Place: Yamaska, Lower Canada
Francois-Regis VANASSE was the child of Francois-Regis VANASSE and Agathe FORCIER

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Children of Francois-Regis VANASSE and Josephte MESSIER:

Oliver VANASSE (b.18 February 1832, Yamaska, Lower Canada d. 10 November 1914, Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada )
m. Nancy Anne Elizabeth FRAPPIER 20 April 1852 in Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island)

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1808 Birth
19 October 1808
Beloeil, 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)

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

1829 Marriage / Partner
Josephte MESSIER and Francois-Regis VANASSE 15 September 1829, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

She was 20 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Oliver VANASSE was born 18 February 1832, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Josephte was 23 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)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Marriage of Child
Oliver VANASSE married 20 April 1852, Chapeau, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Pontiac, Québec, Canada (Allumette Island) to Nancy Anne Elizabeth FRAPPIER

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.