Joseph DEREPENTIGNY

(b. 24 October 1791 , Île-Perrot, Lower Canada d. 1 April 1878 , Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph DEREPENTIGNY was born 24 October 1791 in Île-Perrot, Lower Canada

Joseph DEREPENTIGNY was the child of Joseph DEREPENTIGNY and Agathe LEDUC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph REPENTIGNY (DEREPENTINGY) and Françoise LEFÈBVRE (maternal) Thomas LEDUC and Marguerite GIROUX

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Joseph married Françoise DEREPENTIGNY 10 February 1823 in Beauharnois, St-Clement, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Françoise DEREPENTIGNY was born 9 December 1803 in Île-Perrot, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal). Françoise died 12 March 1895 in Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada. Françoise was the child of Joachim DEREPENTIGNY and Angelique BOURBONNAIS.

Joseph DEREPENTIGNY died 1 April 1878 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, 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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Joseph DEREPENTIGNY married

Françoise DEREPENTIGNY-- Date: 10 February 1823 Place: Beauharnois, St-Clement, Quebec, Canada
Françoise DEREPENTIGNY was the child of Joachim DEREPENTIGNY and Angelique BOURBONNAIS

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Children of Joseph DEREPENTIGNY and Françoise DEREPENTIGNY:

Philomène DE REPENTIGNY (b.13 April 1837, Saint-Timothée, Lower Canada d. 15 January 1912, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada )
m. Samuel-Fabien LAVALLEE 15 August 1859

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1791 Birth
24 October 1791
Île-Perrot, Lower Canada

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

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

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

1823 Marriage / Partner
Joseph DEREPENTIGNY and Françoise DEREPENTIGNY 10 February 1823, Beauharnois, St-Clement, Quebec, Canada

He was 31 years old.

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
Philomène DE REPENTIGNY was born 13 April 1837, Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois)

Joseph was 45 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)

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.