Louis LESSARD

Born

25 August 1797 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Died

7 December 1883 , Iberville, Québec, Canada

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, Lower Canada . Elizabeth (Isabelle) was the child of Jean-Baptiste GIROUX and Marie-Charlotte DUPUIS .

Parents & Family of Louis LESSARD

Parents of Louis LESSARD

Father

Louis LESSARD

Mother

Marie-Charlotte CHARLAND

Grandparents of Louis LESSARD

Paternal grandparents

Joseph-Marie LESSARD Reine BLANCHET

Maternal grandparents

Joseph CHARLAND dit FRANCOEUR Agathe BOURGAULT dite LACROIX

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

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Louis LESSARD

Louis LESSARD married

Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX
Marriage date: 6 October 1817
Marriage place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Source: Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX was the child of Jean-Baptiste GIROUX and Marie-Charlotte DUPUIS

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

Children of Louis LESSARD and Elizabeth (Isabelle) GIROUX

Henrietta LESSARD

Born: 14 March 1837, Iberville, Lower Canada
Died: 27 November 1921, Burlington, Vermont, USA

Married: Edouard DUMAS 7 January 1851 Place: , Canada

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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 — 1797
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 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

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

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.