Francois-Xavier LEBLANC

(b. 2 April 1790 , Bécancour, Nicolet, Province of Québec, Canada d. 26 December 1878 , Sainte-Gertrude, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada )

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Francois-Xavier LEBLANC was born 2 April 1790 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Province of Québec, Canada

Francois-Xavier LEBLANC was the child of Antoine LEBLANC and Marguerite-Francoise BOURBEAU dite BEAUCHESNE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Alexis LEBLANC and Marie-Josephte PROVENCHER (maternal) François BOURBEAU and Francoise FRIGON

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Francois-Xavier married Victoire CHAMPOUX 14 July 1817 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Victoire CHAMPOUX was born 6 June 1796 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly). Victoire died 26 December 1857 in Sainte-Gertrude, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada. Victoire was the child of Jean-Baptiste CHAMPOUX dit ST-PAIR and Angélique HAMEL.

Francois-Xavier LEBLANC died 26 December 1878 in Sainte-Gertrude, Nicolet, 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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Francois-Xavier LEBLANC married

Victoire CHAMPOUX-- Date: 14 July 1817 Place: Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada
Victoire CHAMPOUX was the child of Jean-Baptiste CHAMPOUX dit ST-PAIR and Angélique HAMEL

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Children of Francois-Xavier LEBLANC and Victoire CHAMPOUX:

Desneiges LEBLANC (b.26 March 1827, Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 24 September 1872, Sainte-Gertrude, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada)
m. Moise SEVIGNY 25 October 1858

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1790 Birth
2 April 1790
Bécancour, Nicolet, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Francois-Xavier LEBLANC and Victoire CHAMPOUX 14 July 1817, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly)

He was 27 years old.

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)

1827 Birth of Child
Desneiges LEBLANC was born 26 March 1827, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly)

Francois-Xavier was 37 years old.

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)

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.

1857 Death of Spouse/Partner
Victoire CHAMPOUX died 26 December 1857, Sainte-Gertrude, Nicolet, Quebec, 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.