Louis-Joseph CAYA

(b. 5 May 1793 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 27 April 1877 , Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada )

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Louis-Joseph CAYA was born 5 May 1793 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Louis-Joseph CAYA was the child of Antoine CAYA (CAILLA) and Catherine-Antoinette VANASSE dite PRÉCOURT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph CAYA (CAILLA) and Marie-Anne TROTTIER dite BEAUBIEN (maternal) Antoine VANASSE dit PRÉCOURT and Marie-Louise ROBIDAS dite MANSEAU

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

Louis-Joseph married Dorothee PELISSIER 8 November 1819 in Yamaska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Dorothee PELISSIER was born 31 May 1787 in Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska). Dorothee died 3 September 1824 in Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska). Dorothee was the child of François-Regis PELISSIER and Dorothee BRISEBOIS.

Louis-Joseph CAYA died 27 April 1877 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada.
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Louis-Joseph CAYA married

Dorothee PELISSIER-- Date: 8 November 1819 Place: Yamaska, Lower Canada
Dorothee PELISSIER was the child of François-Regis PELISSIER and Dorothee BRISEBOIS

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Children of Louis-Joseph CAYA and Dorothee PELISSIER:

Louis CAYA (b.18 April 1822, Yamaska, Lower Canada d. , )

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1793 Birth
5 May 1793
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Louis-Joseph CAYA and Dorothee PELISSIER 8 November 1819, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

He was 26 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1822 Birth of Child
Louis CAYA was born 18 April 1822, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Louis-Joseph was 28 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Death of Spouse/Partner
Dorothee PELISSIER died 3 September 1824, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

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

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.