Alexandre GAGNON

(b. 18 November 1806 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada d. 11 June 1892 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )

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Alexandre GAGNON was born 18 November 1806 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Alexandre GAGNON was the child of Jean-Baptiste GAGNON and Marie-Marguerite LEVESQUE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste GAGNON and Genevieve-Marie OUELLET (maternal) Joseph-Toussaint LEVESQUE and Madeleine HUDON dite BEAULIEU

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

Alexandre married Sophie MICHAUD 7 August 1827 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sophie MICHAUD was born 9 June 1801 in La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere). Sophie died 16 May 1888 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay). Sophie was the child of Vincent MICHAUD and Louise CARON.

Alexandre GAGNON died 11 June 1892 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada .
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Did you know that most people with the Gagnon name came from three sons of Pierre Gagnon (Gaignon) and Renee Roger of Tourouvre, France, who came to New France (Quebec) around 1637? Mathurin, Jean and Pierre Gagnon, along with their wives did much to populate North America with the proud Gagnon surname!

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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Alexandre GAGNON married

Sophie MICHAUD-- Date: 7 August 1827 Place: La Pocatière, Lower Canada
Sophie MICHAUD was the child of Vincent MICHAUD and Louise CARON

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Children of Alexandre GAGNON and Sophie MICHAUD:

Adele GAGNON (b.13 July 1829, Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada d. 9 May 1893, Val-Brillant, Québec, Canada)
m. Edouard PINEL dit LAFRANCE 12 July 1847 in Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges)

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1806 Birth
18 November 1806
Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Alexandre GAGNON and Sophie MICHAUD 7 August 1827, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

He was 20 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 Birth of Child
Adele GAGNON was born 13 July 1829, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

Alexandre was 22 years old.

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)

1847 Marriage of Child
Adele GAGNON married 12 July 1847, Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) to Edouard PINEL dit LAFRANCE

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.