Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES

Born

7 May 1804 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada

Died

11 May 1880 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES

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Born: 7 May 1804 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada

Parents of Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES

Father

Michel DESGAGNES

Mother

Marie-Josephte LECLERC

Grandparents of Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES

Paternal grandparents

Joseph DESGAGNES Marie-Thecle TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents

Basile LECLERC Josephte ST-PIERRE

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

Joseph-Timothee married Marie-Suzanne DESGAGNES 7 August 1827 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Suzanne DESGAGNES was born 25 August 1799 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada . Marie-Suzanne was the child of Jean DESGAGNES and Ursule GAGNON.

Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES died 11 May 1880 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES

Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES married

Marie-Suzanne DESGAGNES
Marriage date: 7 August 1827
Marriage place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Marie-Suzanne DESGAGNES was the child of Jean DESGAGNES and Ursule GAGNON

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES and Marie-Suzanne DESGAGNES

Adelaide DESGAGNES

Born: 22 October 1828, Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Joseph TREMBLAY 27 July 1858 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Canada East

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1804
7 May 1804
Isle-aux-Coudres, 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 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-Timothee DESGAGNES and Marie-Suzanne DESGAGNES 7 August 1827, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

He was 23 years old.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
Adelaide DESGAGNES was born 22 October 1828, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Joseph-Timothee was 24 years old.

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)

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

1858 Marriage of Child
Adelaide DESGAGNES married 27 July 1858, Isle-aux-Coudres, Canada East to Joseph TREMBLAY

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.