Georges TALON dit LESPERANCE

Born

28 May 1806 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

31 October 1879 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

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Joseph TALON dit LESPERANCE Marie SAULNIER dite LACOULINE

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Born: 28 May 1806 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph TALON dit LESPERANCE

Mother: Marie SAULNIER dite LACOULINE

Paternal grandparents: Louis TALON , Victoire GAUDREAU

Maternal grandparents: Jean Baptiste SAULNIER , Genevieve POULIN

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Georges married Elizabeth DESBIENS 15 April 1834 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Elizabeth DESBIENS was born 21 March 1807 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Elizabeth died 22 October 1877 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada. Elizabeth was the child of Jean-Marie DESBIENS and Monique PERRON.

Georges TALON dit LESPERANCE died 31 October 1879 in Chicoutimi, 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
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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Elizabeth DESBIENS
Marriage date: 15 April 1834
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Elizabeth DESBIENS was the child of Jean-Marie DESBIENS and Monique PERRON

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Children of Georges TALON dit LESPERANCE and Elizabeth DESBIENS

Louise TALON

Born: abt. 1835, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Benoit OUELLET 2 May 1854 Place: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

Marie-Philomene TALON dite LESPERANCE

Born: 3 June 1849, Chicoutimi, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: William TREMBLAY 1 February 1869 Place: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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Birth — 1806
28 May 1806
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1834 Marriage / Partner
Georges TALON dit LESPERANCE and Elizabeth DESBIENS 15 April 1834, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 27 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)

1849 Birth of Child
Marie-Philomene TALON dite LESPERANCE was born 3 June 1849, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

Georges was 43 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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Louise TALON married 2 May 1854, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Benoit OUELLET

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.

1869 Marriage of Child
Marie-Philomene TALON dite LESPERANCE married 1 February 1869, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to William TREMBLAY

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

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