Jean-Baptiste LESAGE

(b. 25 August 1792 , Louiseville, Lower Canada d. 2 January 1868 , Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste LESAGE was born 25 August 1792 in Louiseville, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste LESAGE was the child of Jean-Louis LESAGE and Marie-Anne GRONDIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste LESAGE and Marie-Louise BILLY dite ST-LOUIS (maternal) Jean GRONDIN and Marie-Geneviève OUELLET

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Jean-Baptiste married Josephte DUENNE dite LEMAITRE 19 May 1817 in Saint-Régis, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte DUENNE dite LEMAITRE was born 12 December 1798 in Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup). Josephte died 7 December 1827 in Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Leon-le-Grand). Josephte was the child of Alexis LEMAITRE dit DUHAIME and Marie-Josephte LAMIRANDE dite CHEVALIER.

Jean-Baptiste LESAGE died 2 January 1868 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada.

m. (2) Angele Peitbois dite Goron
13 mai 1834
Saint-François-du-Lac, Yamaska, 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
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Jean-Baptiste LESAGE married

Josephte DUENNE dite LEMAITRE-- Date: 19 May 1817 Place: Saint-Régis, Lower Canada
Josephte DUENNE dite LEMAITRE was the child of Alexis LEMAITRE dit DUHAIME and Marie-Josephte LAMIRANDE dite CHEVALIER

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Children of Jean-Baptiste LESAGE and Josephte DUENNE dite LEMAITRE:

Aurelie LESAGE (b.2 September 1825, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Lower Canada d. 17 May 1855, Louiseville, Canada East )
m. Edouard LACOMBE 29 July 1845 in Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup)

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1792 Birth
25 August 1792
Louiseville, 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)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste LESAGE and Josephte DUENNE dite LEMAITRE 19 May 1817, Saint-Régis, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Regis) (Akwesasne)

He was 24 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)

1825 Birth of Child
Aurelie LESAGE was born 2 September 1825, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Leon-le-Grand)

Jean-Baptiste was 33 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Death of Spouse/Partner
Josephte DUENNE dite LEMAITRE died 7 December 1827, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Leon-le-Grand)

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)

1845 Marriage of Child
Aurelie LESAGE married 29 July 1845, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup) to Edouard LACOMBE

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.

1855 Death of Child
Aurelie LESAGE died 17 May 1855, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup)

Jean-Baptiste was 62 years old.

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.