Joseph GAGNON

(b. 20 January 1829 , Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. 9 January 1877 , La Baie, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph GAGNON was born 20 January 1829 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada

Joseph GAGNON was the child of Thomas GAGNON and Venerande-Anselme GIRARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Gervais GAGNON and Geneviève TREMBLAY (maternal) Louis GIRARD and Felicite FORTIN

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

Joseph married Sara BOUCHARD 11 June 1849 in La Baie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sara BOUCHARD was born 16 March 1829 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Sara died 26 October 1859 in La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori). Sara was the child of Damase BOUCHARD and Helene GIRARD.

Joseph GAGNON died 9 January 1877 in La Baie, 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!

Occupation

Joseph GAGNON was a Cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

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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.

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Joseph GAGNON married

Sara BOUCHARD-- Date: 11 June 1849 Place: La Baie, Canada East
Sara BOUCHARD was the child of Damase BOUCHARD and Helene GIRARD

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Children of Joseph GAGNON and Sara BOUCHARD:

Alexandre GAGNON (b.abt. 1850, , Québec Province, Canada d. abt. 1936, , Canada)
m. Lea TREMBLAY 3 November 1874 in La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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1829 Birth
20 January 1829
Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada

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)

1849 Marriage / Partner
Joseph GAGNON and Sara BOUCHARD 11 June 1849, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

He was 20 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

1859 Death of Spouse/Partner
Sara BOUCHARD died 26 October 1859, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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.

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

1874 Marriage of Child
Alexandre GAGNON married 3 November 1874, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Lea TREMBLAY

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 Death
9 January 1877
La Baie, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 48.

Added: 11/6/2024 3:42:29 PM - Updated: 11/6/2024 3:44:04 PM