Madeleine GAGNON

(b. 22 July 1828 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 27 May 1886 , Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada )

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Madeleine GAGNON was born 22 July 1828 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Madeleine GAGNON was the child of Joseph GAGNON and Françoise GAUTHIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François GAGNON and Modeste TREMBLAY (maternal) Louis GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) and Procule BOUCHARD

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Madeleine married Dosithee TREMBLAY 5 February 1861 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Dosithee TREMBLAY was born 28 May 1823 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Dosithee died 15 May 1889 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee). Dosithee was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Constance CLAVEAU.

Madeleine GAGNON died 27 May 1886 in Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Madeleine GAGNON married

Dosithee TREMBLAY-- Date: 5 February 1861 Place: Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Canada East
Dosithee TREMBLAY was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Constance CLAVEAU

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Children of Dosithee TREMBLAY and Madeleine GAGNON:

Marie-Emma TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1862, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1828 Birth
22 July 1828
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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

1861 Marriage / Partner
Madeleine GAGNON and Dosithee TREMBLAY 5 February 1861, Saint-Irénée, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada (St-Irenee)

She was 32 years old.

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.