Cecile GAGNON

Born

19 July 1832 , Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada

Died

22 May 1893 , Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

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François GAGNON Françoise TURCOTTE

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Born: 19 July 1832 in Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada

Father: François GAGNON

Mother: Françoise TURCOTTE

Paternal grandparents: Louis GAGNON , Marie-Louise ASSELIN

Maternal grandparents: Michel TURCOTTE , Geneviève DROUIN

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Cecile married Sauveur (Samuel) TREMBLAY 4 November 1875 in Québec, Québec, Canada . Sauveur (Samuel) TREMBLAY was born 27 September 1851 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Sauveur (Samuel) died 26 September 1917 in Ste-Catherine-d'Alexandrie, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Sauveur (Samuel) was the child of Eusebe TREMBLAY and Zenobie TREMBLAY.

Cecile GAGNON died 22 May 1893 in Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, 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!

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.

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Cecile GAGNON married

Sauveur (Samuel) TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 4 November 1875
Marriage place: Québec, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1832
19 July 1832
Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada

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

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.