Louis-Maxime GAGNE

(b. 15 May 1815 , Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada d. 9 August 1881 , Lotbinière, Québec, Canada )

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Louis-Maxime GAGNE was born 15 May 1815 in Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

Louis-Maxime GAGNE was the child of Abraham-Louis GAGNE and Genevieve JALBERT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Toussaint GAGNÉ (GASNIER) dit BELLEAVANCE and Louise BLAIS (maternal) Prisque JALBERT and Marie-Josephe OUELLET

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Louis-Maxime married Leocadie GAGNE 20 June 1837 in Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Leocadie GAGNE was born 31 October 1817 in Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola). Leocadie died 19 November 1883 in Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis). Leocadie was the child of Alexis GAGNE and Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU.

Louis-Maxime GAGNE died 9 August 1881 in Lotbinière, Québec, Canada .
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Family and Children of Louis-Maxime GAGNE

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Louis-Maxime GAGNE married

Leocadie GAGNE-- Date: 20 June 1837 Place: Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

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Leocadie GAGNE was the child of Alexis GAGNE and Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU

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Children of Louis-Maxime GAGNE and Leocadie GAGNE:

Delvina GAGNÉ (b.7 June 1847, Lotbinière, Canada East d. 7 March 1922, , Québec Province, Canada )
m. E-Ludger HOUDE 1 August 1870 in Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis)

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1815 Birth
15 May 1815
Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

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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

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 Marriage / Partner
Louis-Maxime GAGNE and Leocadie GAGNE 20 June 1837, Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola)

He was 22 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)

1847 Birth of Child
Delvina GAGNÉ was born 7 June 1847, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis)

Louis-Maxime was 32 years old.

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.