Augustin BIRON

(b. 27 August 1790 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada d. 4 March 1877 , Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada )

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Augustin BIRON was born 27 August 1790 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada

Augustin BIRON was the child of Joseph-Marie BIRON and Marguerite LEMAIRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) François-De-Sales BIRON and Marie-Agathe GAUTHIER (maternal) François LEMAIRE and Marie-Josephte DENEVERS dite BOISVERT

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

Augustin married Julie CHASSE 11 October 1818 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julie CHASSE was born 9 November 1799 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre). Julie died 11 January 1878 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Julie was the child of François CHASSE and Josephte LACROIX dite CORBIN.

Augustin BIRON died 4 March 1877 in Sherbrooke, 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.
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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Family and Children of Augustin BIRON

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Augustin BIRON married

Julie CHASSE-- Date: 11 October 1818 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Julie CHASSE was the child of François CHASSE and Josephte LACROIX dite CORBIN

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Children of Augustin BIRON and Julie CHASSE:

Raphael-Alfred BIRON (b.4 October 1843, Sherbrooke, Canada East d. 1 December 1918, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
m. Marie-Olivine-Herméline CLERMONT dite DUBORD 1 May 1865 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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1790 Birth
27 August 1790
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

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

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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Augustin BIRON and Julie CHASSE 11 October 1818, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

He was 28 years old.

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

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)

1843 Birth of Child
Raphael-Alfred BIRON was born 4 October 1843, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Augustin was 53 years old.

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)

1865 Marriage of Child
Raphael-Alfred BIRON married 1 May 1865, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada to Marie-Olivine-Herméline CLERMONT dite DUBORD

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.