Pierre-Louis DESJARDINS

(b. 7 January 1796 , Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada d. 21 March 1869 , Stephen, Huron, Ontario, Canada )

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Pierre-Louis DESJARDINS was born 7 January 1796 in Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada

Pierre-Louis DESJARDINS was the child of Pierre DESJARDINS and Marguerite GRATTON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-Paul DESJARDINS and Felicite COTE (maternal) Andre GRATTON (GRATON) and Françoise BELANGER

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Pierre-Louis married Angelique-Julia DESJARDINS 10 February 1817 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Angelique-Julia DESJARDINS was born 5 October 1800 in Saint-Eustache, Québec, Canada. Angelique-Julia died 28 March 1875 in Stephen, Huron, Ontario, Canada. Angelique-Julia was the child of Joseph DESJARDINS and Apolline (Pauline) FOUCAULT.

Pierre-Louis DESJARDINS died 21 March 1869 in Stephen, Huron, Ontario, 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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Pierre-Louis DESJARDINS married

Angelique-Julia DESJARDINS-- Date: 10 February 1817 Place: Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada
Angelique-Julia DESJARDINS was the child of Joseph DESJARDINS and Apolline (Pauline) FOUCAULT

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Children of Pierre-Louis DESJARDINS and Angelique-Julia DESJARDINS:

André DESJARDINS (b.6 October 1821, Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada d. 12 September 1900, Grand Bend, Huron, Ontario Canada)
m. Theotiste-"Theresa" HAMELIN dite BELOU 1841 in Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

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1796 Birth
7 January 1796
Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada

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

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

1817 Marriage / Partner
Pierre-Louis DESJARDINS and Angelique-Julia DESJARDINS 10 February 1817, Saint-Eustache, Québec, Canada

He was 21 years old.

1817 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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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

1821 Birth of Child
André DESJARDINS was born 6 October 1821, Sainte-Thérèse, Québec, Canada (Blainville)

Pierre-Louis was 25 years old.

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

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.