Joseph TOUCHETTE

Born

15 October 1830 , Charlesbourg, Québec, Lower Canada

Died

23 December 1888 , Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada

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Joseph TOUCHETTE Basilice AUBE

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Born: 15 October 1830 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph TOUCHETTE

Mother: Basilice AUBE

Paternal grandparents: Joseph TOUCHETTE , Isabelle TRUDEL

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste AUBE dit LANGLOIS , Marie-Anne POULIOT

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Joseph married Tharsile LEONARD 25 November 1851 in Joliette, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Tharsile LEONARD was born abt. 1831

Joseph TOUCHETTE died 23 December 1888 in Charlesbourg, Québec, 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
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Joseph TOUCHETTE married

Tharsile LEONARD
Marriage date: 25 November 1851
Marriage place: Joliette, Canada East

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Children of Joseph TOUCHETTE and Tharsile LEONARD

Emilie TOUCHETTE

Born: abt. 1854, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Joseph TREMBLAY 3 September 1877 Place: Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal)

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Birth — 1830
15 October 1830
Charlesbourg, Québec, 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)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Joseph TOUCHETTE and Tharsile LEONARD 25 November 1851, Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie)

He was 21 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

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.