Toussaint GIRARD

(b. 16 July 1828 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 20 August 1877 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Toussaint GIRARD was born 16 July 1828 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Toussaint GIRARD was the child of Joseph-Toussaint GIRARD and Marie-Josephte ARCHAMBAULT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques-Amable GIRARD and Monique CHOQUET (maternal) Jean-Baptiste ARCHAMBAULT and Marie-Elisabeth-Isabelle BOUSQUET

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Toussaint married Angele JANSON 18 January 1853 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East . Angele JANSON was born 7 June 1832 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Angele was the child of Joseph JANSON and Marie-Geneviève BREAU (BRAULT).

Toussaint GIRARD died 20 August 1877 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, 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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Toussaint GIRARD married

Angele JANSON-- Date: 18 January 1853 Place: Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada East
Angele JANSON was the child of Joseph JANSON and Marie-Geneviève BREAU (BRAULT)

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1828 Birth
16 July 1828
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

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.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Toussaint GIRARD and Angele JANSON 18 January 1853, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

He was 24 years old.

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.