Claude-Leandre LACOURSIERE

Born

1 January 1803 , Louiseville, Lower Canada

Died

8 October 1891 , St-Paulin de Maskinongé, Québec, Canada

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Claude RIVARD dit LACOURSIERE Genevieve TISDELE dite NOEL

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Born: 1 January 1803 in Louiseville, Lower Canada

Father: Claude RIVARD dit LACOURSIERE

Mother: Genevieve TISDELE dite NOEL

Paternal grandparents: Claude-Joseph RIVARD dit LACOURSIERE , Marie-Felicite CADOT

Maternal grandparents: Samuel Charles NUHALTE dit TISDEL NOEL , Marie-Catherine GUILBAULT

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Claude-Leandre married Julie VANASSE dite BASTIEN 17 May 1830 in Louiseville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julie VANASSE dite BASTIEN was born 28 December 1807 in Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup). Julie died 18 April 1882 in St-Paulin de Maskinongé, Québec, Canada. Julie was the child of François VANASSE dit BASTIEN and Marie-Josephte SAUCIER.

Claude-Leandre LACOURSIERE died 8 October 1891 in St-Paulin de Maskinongé, Québec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Claude-Leandre LACOURSIERE married

Julie VANASSE dite BASTIEN
Marriage date: 17 May 1830
Marriage place: Louiseville, Lower Canada
Julie VANASSE dite BASTIEN was the child of François VANASSE dit BASTIEN and Marie-Josephte SAUCIER

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Claude LACOURSIERE

Born: 6 August 1832, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Lower Canada
Died: 10 November 1915, St-Alexis-des-Monts, Quebec, Canada

Married: Agathe BELANGER 9 August 1853

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Birth — 1803
1 January 1803
Louiseville, 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 Marriage / Partner
Claude-Leandre LACOURSIERE and Julie VANASSE dite BASTIEN 17 May 1830, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup)

He was 27 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Claude LACOURSIERE was born 6 August 1832, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Leon-le-Grand)

Claude-Leandre was 29 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)

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.