Josephte GERVAIS

(b. 29 January 1801 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 18 January 1884 , Saint-Alexandre, Iberville, Québec, Canada )

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Josephte GERVAIS was born 29 January 1801 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Josephte GERVAIS was the child of Alexandre GERVAIS and Marie-Anne-Jeanne BOURASSA and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre GERVAIS and Marie-Josephe MORAND dite DOUVILLE (maternal) François-Albert-Jacques BOURASSA and Marie-Anne-Jeanne BROSSEAU

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Josephte married Jean Baptiste DOCKSTEADER (DEXTRADEUR) 4 October 1819 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . Jean Baptiste DOCKSTEADER (DEXTRADEUR) was born 8 October 1802 in Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud). Jean Baptiste died 12 March 1889 in Hudson Falls, New York, USA. Jean Baptiste was the child of George Adam DOCKSTEADER (DEXTRADEUR) and Ursule TESSIER dite LAVIGNE.

Josephte GERVAIS died 18 January 1884 in Saint-Alexandre, Iberville, Québec, Canada.

married Jean Baptiste Dextradeur, son of Georges Dextradeur and Ursule Tessier, 04 October 1819
L'Acadie, Ste-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie, Quebec
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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Jean Baptiste DOCKSTEADER (DEXTRADEUR)-- Date: 4 October 1819 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Jean Baptiste DOCKSTEADER (DEXTRADEUR) was the child of George Adam DOCKSTEADER (DEXTRADEUR) and Ursule TESSIER dite LAVIGNE

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1801 Birth
29 January 1801
L'Acadie, 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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Josephte GERVAIS and Jean Baptiste DOCKSTEADER (DEXTRADEUR) 4 October 1819, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

She was 18 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)

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)

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.