Chrysanthe DESBIENS

Born

30 October 1823 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

October 1879 , St-Marcellin, Les Escoumins, Quebec, Canada

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Sebastien DESBIENS Ursule LABRECQUE

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Born: 30 October 1823 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Father: Sebastien DESBIENS

Mother: Ursule LABRECQUE

Paternal grandparents: Joseph-Henri-Louis DESBIENS , Marie-Anne HARVEY

Maternal grandparents: Pierre LABRECQUE dit LAVALLEE , Marie-Josephte LEBRETON

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

Chrysanthe married Anathalie BOUCHARD 11 January 1848 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Anathalie BOUCHARD was born 5 October 1822 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Anathalie died 19 May 1916 in Saint-Paul-du-Nord, Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada. Anathalie was the child of Damase BOUCHARD and Helene GIRARD.

Chrysanthe DESBIENS died October 1879 in St-Marcellin, Les Escoumins, Quebec, 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.

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Chrysanthe DESBIENS married

Anathalie BOUCHARD
Marriage date: 11 January 1848
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

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Anathalie BOUCHARD was the child of Damase BOUCHARD and Helene GIRARD

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Children of Chrysanthe DESBIENS and Anathalie BOUCHARD

Louise DESBIENS

Born: 5 January 1852, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: 1 November 1937, St-Paul-du-Nord, Quebec, Canada

Married: Francois TREMBLAY 2 August 1869

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Birth — 1823
30 October 1823
La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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)

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)

1848 Marriage / Partner
Chrysanthe DESBIENS and Anathalie BOUCHARD 11 January 1848, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 24 years old.

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

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

1852 Birth of Child
Louise DESBIENS was born 5 January 1852, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Chrysanthe was 28 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

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.