Alexis GAGNE

(b. 2 September 1791 , Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada d. 5 November 1874 , Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada )

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Alexis GAGNE was born 2 September 1791 in Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

Alexis GAGNE was the child of Alexis GAGNE and Helene GENDRON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis-Etienne GAGNE dit BELLAVANCE and Marie-Anne GUYON (maternal) Joseph GENDRON and Marie-Josephe HAINS

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Alexis married Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU 8 October 1811 in Montmagny, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU was born 10 May 1792 in Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire). Archange-Euprosine died 10 August 1858 in Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola). Archange-Euprosine was the child of François-Prosper GAUDREAU and Madeleine GAGNON.

Alexis GAGNE died 5 November 1874 in Cap-St-Ignace, 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.
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Alexis GAGNE married

Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU-- Date: 8 October 1811 Place: Montmagny, Lower Canada
Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU was the child of François-Prosper GAUDREAU and Madeleine GAGNON

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Children of Alexis GAGNE and Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU:

Leocadie GAGNE (b.31 October 1817, Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada d. 19 November 1883, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada )
m. Louis-Maxime GAGNE 20 June 1837 in Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola)

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1791 Birth
2 September 1791
Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

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

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

1811 Marriage / Partner
Alexis GAGNE and Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU 8 October 1811, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire)

He was 20 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Leocadie GAGNE was born 31 October 1817, Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola)

Alexis was 26 years old.

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 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1837 Marriage of Child
Leocadie GAGNE married 20 June 1837, Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola) to Louis-Maxime GAGNE

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

1858 Death of Spouse/Partner
Archange-Euprosine GAUDREAU died 10 August 1858, Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola)

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.