Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE

(b. 2 June 1816 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada d. 9 May 1894 , Québec, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE was born 2 June 1816 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE was the child of Alexandre GAGNON dit BELIZLE and Charlotte PLOURDE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean GAGNON and Marie-Angelique LEBEL (maternal) Denis PLOURDE and Marie-Claudette-Charlotte OUELLET

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Joseph married Marie-Julie-Monique HIANVEU dite LAFRANCE 15 September 1840 in Québec, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Julie-Monique HIANVEU dite LAFRANCE was born 18 December 1820 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marie-Julie-Monique was the child of Louis-Charles HIANVEU dit LAFRANCE and Marie-Angelique-Emilie MCDONALD.

Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE died 9 May 1894 in Québec, 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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Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE married

Marie-Julie-Monique HIANVEU dite LAFRANCE-- Date: 15 September 1840 Place: Québec, Lower Canada
Marie-Julie-Monique HIANVEU dite LAFRANCE was the child of Louis-Charles HIANVEU dit LAFRANCE and Marie-Angelique-Emilie MCDONALD

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Children of Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE and Marie-Julie-Monique HIANVEU dite LAFRANCE:

Joseph Stanislas Ademar GAGNON (b.9 September 1847, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada d. , )

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1816 Birth
2 June 1816
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)

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

1840 Marriage / Partner
Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE and Marie-Julie-Monique HIANVEU dite LAFRANCE 15 September 1840, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

He was 24 years old.

Joseph GAGNON dit BELIZLE - 1840 marriage

1840 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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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 Birth of Child
Joseph Stanislas Ademar GAGNON was born 9 September 1847, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Joseph was 31 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.

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.