Joseph GAUTHIER

(b. 5 September 1785 , Repentigny, Province of Québec, Canada d. 10 May 1870 , Sainte-Julienne, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph GAUTHIER was born 5 September 1785 in Repentigny, Province of Québec, Canada

Joseph GAUTHIER was the child of Joseph GAUTHIER dit LANDREVILLE and Elisabeth LEVESQUE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis GAUTHIER dit LANDREVILLE and Marie-Louise LESCARBOT (LESCARBEAU) (maternal) Michel LEVESQUE dit SANSOUCY and Marie-Josephe CADIEUX

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Joseph married Josephte-Therese DESNOUX (DENEAU) 11 July 1808 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte-Therese DESNOUX (DENEAU) was born abt. 1786 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Josephte-Therese died 20 November 1876 in Sainte-Julienne, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Julienne-de-Rawdon). Josephte-Therese was the child of Charles DESNOUX dit LÉVEILLÉ and Marie-Anne RAYMOND.

Joseph GAUTHIER died 10 May 1870 in Sainte-Julienne, Québec, Canada .

m. Josephte Therese Denault
11 July 1808
St. Esprit, Montcalm, Quebec

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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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Joseph GAUTHIER married

Josephte-Therese DESNOUX (DENEAU)-- Date: 11 July 1808 Place: Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada
Josephte-Therese DESNOUX (DENEAU) was the child of Charles DESNOUX dit LÉVEILLÉ and Marie-Anne RAYMOND

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Children of Joseph GAUTHIER and Josephte-Therese DESNOUX (DENEAU):

Antoine LANDREVILLE dit GAUTHIER (b.2 May 1824, , Québec Province, Canada d. 18 July 1907, Marquette, Michigan, USA)
m. Sophie CHAPUT 1851

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1785 Birth
5 September 1785
Repentigny, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1808 Marriage / Partner
Joseph GAUTHIER and Josephte-Therese DESNOUX (DENEAU) 11 July 1808, Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada

He was 22 years old.

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)

1824 Birth of Child
Antoine LANDREVILLE dit GAUTHIER was born 2 May 1824, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Joseph was 38 years old.

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 - 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)

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.