François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION

(b. 5 February 1812 , Boucherville, Lower Canada d. 7 May 1881 , St-Hubert, Quebec, Canada )

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François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION was born 5 February 1812 in Boucherville, Lower Canada

François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION was the child of François COALLIER and Madeleine QUINTIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Urbain COALLIER dit NOVION and Marie-Louise SENECAL dite LAFRAMBOISE (maternal) Joseph QUINTIN dit DUBOIS and Madeleine LAMBERT

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François-Xavier married Marie-Louise LACOSTE 11 October 1834 in Boucherville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Louise LACOSTE was born abt. 1814 in Boucherville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville). Marie-Louise was the child of Jacques LACOSTE and Marie NORMANDIN.

François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION died 7 May 1881 in St-Hubert, Quebec, 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 François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION

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François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION married

Marie-Louise LACOSTE-- Date: 11 October 1834 Place: Boucherville, Lower Canada
Marie-Louise LACOSTE was the child of Jacques LACOSTE and Marie NORMANDIN

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Children of François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION and Marie-Louise LACOSTE:

Louis-Napoleon COALLIER (b.5 July 1853, Montréal, Canada East d. 17 March 1933, St-Zotique, Quebec, Canada)
m. Virginie FORGET dite DEPATIE 6 July 1880 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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1812 Birth
5 February 1812
Boucherville, 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)

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

1834 Marriage / Partner
François-Xavier COALLIER dit NOVION and Marie-Louise LACOSTE 11 October 1834, Boucherville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville)

He was 22 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Louis-Napoleon COALLIER was born 5 July 1853, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

François-Xavier was 41 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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1880 Marriage of Child
Louis-Napoleon COALLIER married 6 July 1880, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Virginie FORGET dite DEPATIE