Basile DESROSIERS

Born

28 September 1808 , Lavaltrie, Lower Canada

Died

6 August 1894 , Lanoraie, Québec, Canada

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Alexis LANIEL dit DESROSIERS Marie-Catherine BONIN

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Born: 28 September 1808 in Lavaltrie, Lower Canada

Father: Alexis LANIEL dit DESROSIERS

Mother: Marie-Catherine BONIN

Paternal grandparents: Alexis LANIEL dit DESROSIERS , Reine COURTIN dite SANSCHAGRIN

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste BONIN , Marie-Antoinette HOUDE

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Basile married Theotiste BEAUGRAND dite CHAMPAGNE 10 February 1834 in Lanoraie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Theotiste BEAUGRAND dite CHAMPAGNE was born abt. 1814 in Québec Province, Canada. Theotiste died 2 March 1897 in Lanoraie, Québec, Canada . Theotiste was the child of Alexis BEAUGRAND dit CHAMPAGNE and Theotiste PAGÉ.

Basile DESROSIERS died 6 August 1894 in Lanoraie, Québec, Canada .
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Basile DESROSIERS married

Theotiste BEAUGRAND dite CHAMPAGNE
Marriage date: 10 February 1834
Marriage place: Lanoraie, Lower Canada
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Theotiste BEAUGRAND dite CHAMPAGNE was the child of Alexis BEAUGRAND dit CHAMPAGNE and Theotiste PAGÉ

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

Children of Basile DESROSIERS and Theotiste BEAUGRAND dite CHAMPAGNE

Louis DESROSIERS

Born: abt. 1841, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Emilie PAGÉ 26 November 1861 Place: Lanoraie, Canada East

Theotiste DESROSIERS

Born: 4 March 1842, Lavaltrie, Canada East
Died: 1 February 1884, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Eusebe DEMERS 6 October 1863 Place: Lanoraie, Canada East

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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 — 1808
28 September 1808
Lavaltrie, 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 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1834 Marriage / Partner
Basile DESROSIERS and Theotiste BEAUGRAND dite CHAMPAGNE 10 February 1834, Lanoraie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie)

He was 25 years old.

1834 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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
Theotiste DESROSIERS was born 4 March 1842, Lavaltrie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine)

Basile was 33 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

1861 Marriage of Child
Louis DESROSIERS married 26 November 1861, Lanoraie, Canada East to Emilie PAGÉ

1863 Marriage of Child
Theotiste DESROSIERS married 6 October 1863, Lanoraie, Canada East to Eusebe DEMERS

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1884 Death of Child
Theotiste DESROSIERS died 1 February 1884, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)

Basile was 75 years old.

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

Death — 1894
6 August 1894
Lanoraie, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 85.

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