Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE

(b. 2 May 1803 , Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 12 February 1878 , Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE was born 2 May 1803 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE was the child of Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE and Genevieve-Rosalie ARPIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques BONNIER dit LAPLANTE and Marie-Ursule PLOUFFE (maternal) Marie-Ours HERPIN (ARPIN) dit POITEVIN and Geneviève GAMARD dite POUTICHEROT

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Joseph married Marie-Josephte JACQUES 19 September 1825 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Josephte JACQUES was born 2 January 1806 in Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur). Marie-Josephte died 16 October 1881 in Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada. Marie-Josephte was the child of François JACQUES and Marie-Helene GENDRON.

Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE died 12 February 1878 in Saint-Jude, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE

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Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE married

Marie-Josephte JACQUES-- Date: 19 September 1825 Place: Saint-Ours, Lower Canada
Marie-Josephte JACQUES was the child of François JACQUES and Marie-Helene GENDRON

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Children of Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE and Marie-Josephte JACQUES:

Lucie BONNIER dite LAPLANTE (b.26 August 1826, Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 4 September 1909, Blackstone, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Toussaint ARCHAMBAULT 13 January 1846 in Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada

Delima BONNIER dite LAPLANTE (b.abt. 1835, , Québec Province, Canada d. 29 April 1865, Saint-Jude, Canada East)
m. François PHANEUF 18 January 1858 in Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada

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1803 Birth
2 May 1803
Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Joseph BONNIER dit LAPLANTE and Marie-Josephte JACQUES 19 September 1825, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

He was 22 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Birth of Child
Lucie BONNIER dite LAPLANTE was born 26 August 1826, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

Joseph was 23 years old.

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)

1846 Marriage of Child
Lucie BONNIER dite LAPLANTE married 13 January 1846, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada to Toussaint ARCHAMBAULT

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 Marriage of Child
Delima BONNIER dite LAPLANTE married 18 January 1858, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada to François PHANEUF

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Death of Child
Delima BONNIER dite LAPLANTE died 29 April 1865, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada

Joseph was 62 years old.

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.