Louis LESSARD

(b. 25 August 1797 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 7 December 1883 , Iberville, Québec, Canada )

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Louis LESSARD was born 25 August 1797 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Louis LESSARD was the child of Louis LESSARD and Marie-Charlotte CHARLAND and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Marie LESSARD and Reine BLANCHET (maternal) Joseph CHARLAND dit FRANCOEUR and Agathe BOURGAULT dite LACROIX

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Louis married Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX 6 October 1817 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX was born 4 April 1794 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Elizabeth (Isabelle) was the child of Jean-Baptiste GIROUX and Marie-Charlotte DUPUIS.

Louis LESSARD died 7 December 1883 in Iberville, Québec, Canada .

son of Louis Lessard and Marie Louise ?Francois? or Marie Charlotte Charland

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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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Louis LESSARD married

Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX-- Date: 6 October 1817 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
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Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX was the child of Jean-Baptiste GIROUX and Marie-Charlotte DUPUIS

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Children of Louis LESSARD and Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX:

Henrietta LESSARD (b.14 March 1837, Iberville, Lower Canada d. 27 November 1921, Burlington, Vermont, USA)
m. Edouard DUMAS 7 January 1851 in , Canada

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1797 Birth
25 August 1797
L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Baptism

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

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

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

1817 Marriage / Partner
Louis LESSARD and Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX 6 October 1817, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 20 years old.

1817 marriage

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

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

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 Birth of Child
Henrietta LESSARD was born 14 March 1837, Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury)

Louis was 39 years old.

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)

1851 Marriage of Child
Henrietta LESSARD married 7 January 1851, , Canada to Edouard DUMAS

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.