Helene GAGNON

(b. 22 August 1791 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 5 March 1881 , Lacolle, Québec, Canada )

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Helene GAGNON was born 22 August 1791 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Helene GAGNON was the child of Louis-Joseph GAGNON and Marguerite DURETTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Etienne GAGNON and Marguerite-Euphronsine SIMARD (maternal) Jean-Baptiste DURETTE and Marie-Bibiane LABERGE

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

Helene married Pierre ALLARD 27 September 1808 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Pierre ALLARD was born 1 January 1785 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Pierre died 19 April 1864 in Lacolle, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle). Pierre was the child of Joseph-Francois ALLARD and Marie-Thérèse GUAY.

Helene GAGNON died 5 March 1881 in Lacolle, Québec, Canada .
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Did you know that most people with the Gagnon name came from three sons of Pierre Gagnon (Gaignon) and Renee Roger of Tourouvre, France, who came to New France (Quebec) around 1637? Mathurin, Jean and Pierre Gagnon, along with their wives did much to populate North America with the proud Gagnon surname!

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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Family and Children of Helene GAGNON

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Helene GAGNON married

Pierre ALLARD-- Date: 27 September 1808 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Pierre ALLARD was the child of Joseph-Francois ALLARD and Marie-Thérèse GUAY

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Children of Pierre ALLARD and Helene GAGNON:

Emilienne ALLARD (b.10 September 1809, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Jeremie-Pierre TREMBLAY 13 February 1827 in Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

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1791 Birth
22 August 1791
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1808 Marriage / Partner
Helene GAGNON and Pierre ALLARD 27 September 1808, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 17 years old.

1809 Birth of Child
Emilienne ALLARD was born 10 September 1809, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Helene was 18 years old.

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)

1827 Marriage of Child
Emilienne ALLARD married 13 February 1827, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) to Jeremie-Pierre TREMBLAY

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)

1864 Death of Spouse/Partner
Pierre ALLARD died 19 April 1864, Lacolle, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle)

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.