Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS

(b. 17 July 1821 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 3 November 1889 , La Pocatière, Québec, Canada )

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Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS was born 17 July 1821 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS was the child of Joseph ROY dit DESJARDINS and Felicite SIROIS dite DUPLESSIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Hippolyte ROY dit DESJARDINS and Angelique CHAMARD (maternal) Francois SIROIS dit DUPLESSIS and Felicite CHALOUX

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

Hospice married Julie DOUCET 12 October 1846 in L'Isle-Verte, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julie DOUCET was born 2 September 1818 in Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph). Julie died 4 February 1899 in La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere). Julie was the child of Michel DOUCET and Marie-Geneviève GENEREUX.

Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS died 3 November 1889 in La Pocatière, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS

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Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS married

Julie DOUCET-- Date: 12 October 1846 Place: L'Isle-Verte, Canada East

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Julie DOUCET was the child of Michel DOUCET and Marie-Geneviève GENEREUX

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Children of Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS and Julie DOUCET:

Julie-Felicite ROY dite DESJARDINS (b.12 August 1856, L'Isle-Verte, Canada East d. , )
m. Charles-Emile GARON 13 June 1876 in La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

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1821 Birth
17 July 1821
Kamouraska, Lower Canada

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)

1846 Marriage / Partner
Hospice ROY dit DESJARDINS and Julie DOUCET 12 October 1846, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

He was 25 years old.

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.

1856 Birth of Child
Julie-Felicite ROY dite DESJARDINS was born 12 August 1856, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

Hospice was 35 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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1876 Marriage of Child
Julie-Felicite ROY dite DESJARDINS married 13 June 1876, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere) to Charles-Emile GARON

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.