flag male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste  TESSIER

  (b. 24 November 1824 Sorel, Lower Canada   d. 1 October 1891 Montréal, Québec, Canada )  

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Jean-Baptiste TESSIER was born 24 November 1824 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste TESSIER was the child of Pierre TESSIER   and   Judith-Julie HUS COURNOYER and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Joseph TESSIER dit MAJOR and Marie-Catherine HUS COURNOYER MILLET (maternal)  Charles HUS COURNOYER and Marie-Josephte LAVALLÉE

Jean-Baptiste TESSIER died 1 October 1891 in Montréal, Québec, Canada .





m. Sept.5,1843 • St.Pierre de Sorel,Quebec,Canada
Edwidge Cournoyer (1826–1915)


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Did You Know? 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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birth1824 Birth
24 November 1824
Sorel, Lower Canada
Kings and Queens1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England
Kings and Queens1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England
News1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
News1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.
News1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.
News1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.
News1867 - 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.
Prime Minister of Canada1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
News1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)
News1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
death1891 Death
1 October 1891
Montréal, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 66.


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