Joseph RACINE

Born

22 April 1815 , Montmorency, Quebec, Canada

Died

13 August 1891 , Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada

Joseph married Marie VEZINA 21 January 1834 in Isle-aux-Grues, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie VEZINA was born abt. 1815 in Isle-aux-Grues, Lower Canada . Marie died 9 June 1892 in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada . Marie was the child of Joseph VEZINA and Marie Elisabeth RODRIGUE .

Parents & Family of Joseph RACINE

Parents of Joseph RACINE

Father

Jacques-Etienne RACINE

Mother

Marie-Angelique ALLAIRE

Grandparents of Joseph RACINE

Paternal grandparents

Ignace RACINE Marie-Anne-Victoire SIMARD

Maternal grandparents

Etienne ALLAIRE Osithe-Victoire BLOUIN

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Joseph RACINE

Joseph RACINE married

Marie VEZINA
Marriage date: 21 January 1834
Marriage place: Isle-aux-Grues, Lower Canada
Marie VEZINA was the child of Joseph VEZINA and Marie Elisabeth RODRIGUE

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Joseph RACINE and Marie VEZINA

Georges RACINE

Born: 31 March 1842, Saint-Barthélemy, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Rose-Marie RONDEAU 7 October 1867 Place: Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Canada East

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1815
22 April 1815
Montmorency, Quebec, 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
Joseph RACINE and Marie VEZINA 21 January 1834, Isle-aux-Grues, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine)

He was 18 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

1842 Birth of Child
Georges RACINE was born 31 March 1842, Saint-Barthélemy, Québec, Canada

Joseph was 26 years old.

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.