Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ

(b. 18 April 1806 , La Pocatière, Lower Canada d. 2 September 1884 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )

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Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ was born 18 April 1806 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada

Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ was the child of Louis MIGNIER dit LAGACÉ and Marie RICHARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis-Marie MIGNIER dit LAGACÉ and Rosalie RICHARD (maternal) Jean-Baptiste RICHARD and Thérèse GAGNE

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

Helene married Pierre TREMBLAY 24 February 1824 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 9 children.
Pierre TREMBLAY was born 7 January 1798 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Pierre died 18 January 1865 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada. Pierre was the child of André-Sauveur TREMBLAY and Romaine MERCIER.

Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ died 2 September 1884 in Chicoutimi, 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 Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ

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Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ married

Pierre TREMBLAY-- Date: 24 February 1824 Place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Pierre TREMBLAY was the child of André-Sauveur TREMBLAY and Romaine MERCIER

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Children of Pierre TREMBLAY and Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ:

Louise TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1824, La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. 27 March 1876, Saint-Prime, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada)

Joseph TREMBLAY (b.April 1827, , Québec Province, Canada d. 26 November 1909, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )
m. Eleonore BOUCHARD 7 January 1852 in La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Helene TREMBLAY (b.30 January 1829, La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. 21 September 1893, Saint-Félicien, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )

Anastasie TREMBLAY (b.15 May 1831, La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. 5 June 1895, Roberval, Québec, Canada )

Pierre TREMBLAY (b.24 April 1833, Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada d. , )

Cesarine TREMBLAY (b.6 February 1835, Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada d. 13 August 1910, St-André-du-Lac-St-Jean, Canada)

Celeste TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1836, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Philias TREMBLAY (b.18 June 1837, Clermont, Quebec, Canada d. 17 July 1891, Rochester, Essex, Ontario, Canada)
m. Marie-Louise DALLAIRE 30 March 1856 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada

Bassilisse TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1845, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1806 Birth
18 April 1806
La Pocatière, 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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Helene MIGNIER dite LAGACÉ and Pierre TREMBLAY 24 February 1824, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 17 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Joseph TREMBLAY was born April 1827, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Helene was 20 years old.

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

1829 Birth of Child
Helene TREMBLAY was born 30 January 1829, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Helene was 22 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1831 Birth of Child
Anastasie TREMBLAY was born 15 May 1831, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Helene was 25 years old.

1833 Birth of Child
Pierre TREMBLAY was born 24 April 1833, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

Helene was 27 years old.

1835 Birth of Child
Cesarine TREMBLAY was born 6 February 1835, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

Helene was 28 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 Birth of Child
Philias TREMBLAY was born 18 June 1837, Clermont, Quebec, Canada

Helene was 31 years old.

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.

1852 Marriage of Child
Joseph TREMBLAY married 7 January 1852, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Eleonore BOUCHARD

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1856 Marriage of Child
Philias TREMBLAY married 30 March 1856, Laterrière, Québec, Canada to Marie-Louise DALLAIRE

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)

1865 Death of Spouse/Partner
Pierre TREMBLAY died 18 January 1865, Laterrière, Québec, Canada

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.