Fabien DESROSIERS

(b. 12 April 1818 , Lanoraie, Lower Canada d. 4 July 1879 , Iberville, Québec, Canada )

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Fabien DESROSIERS was born 12 April 1818 in Lanoraie, Lower Canada

Fabien DESROSIERS was the child of Louis DESROSIERS and Marie-Geneviève CUSSON dite FOUBERT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Alexis LANIEL dit DESROSIERS and Reine COURTIN dite SANSCHAGRIN (maternal) Joseph CUSSON dit FOUBERT and Agathe VIGNEAULT

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

Fabien married Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY 29 September 1840 in Lavaltrie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY was born abt. 1820 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Josephe was the child of Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY and Marie-Anne DESROSIERS.

Fabien DESROSIERS died 4 July 1879 in Iberville, Québec, Canada .
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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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Family and Children of Fabien DESROSIERS

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Fabien DESROSIERS married

Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY-- Date: 29 September 1840 Place: Lavaltrie, Lower Canada

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Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY was the child of Charles GRIVEAULT dit BOISJOLY and Marie-Anne DESROSIERS

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Children of Fabien DESROSIERS and Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY:

Alphonsine DESROSIERS (b.abt. 1854, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Moise BOUCHER 7 September 1874 in Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury)

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1818 Birth
12 April 1818
Lanoraie, Lower Canada

Baptism

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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 - 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

1840 Marriage / Partner
Fabien DESROSIERS and Josephe GRIVEAULT dite BOISJOLY 29 September 1840 , Lavaltrie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine)

He was 22 years old.

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.