Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS

(b. abt. 1800 , Québec Province, Canada d. 26 January 1884 , Laterrière, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS was born abt. 1800 in Québec Province, Canada

Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS was the child of Etienne DESBIENS and Madeleine BOUCHARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS and Marie-Luce PEDNEAU (PEDNEAULT) (maternal) Antoine BOUCHARD and Marie-Josephte GRENON

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

Jean-Baptiste married Flavie BELLEY 23 April 1827 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Flavie BELLEY was born 1 August 1811 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Flavie died 13 May 1896 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay). Flavie was the child of Louis BELLEY and Marguerite TREMBLAY.

Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS died 26 January 1884 in Laterrière, 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.

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Family and Children of Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS

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Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS married

Flavie BELLEY-- Date: 23 April 1827 Place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Flavie BELLEY was the child of Louis BELLEY and Marguerite TREMBLAY

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Children of Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS and Flavie BELLEY:

Adelaide DESBIENS (b.6 June 1841, La Malbaie, Canada East d. 14 October 1908, Luskville, Quebec, Canada)
m. Germain TREMBLAY 20 February 1860 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada

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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 / Partner
Jean-Baptiste DESBIENS and Flavie BELLEY 23 April 1827, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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

1841 Birth of Child
Adelaide DESBIENS was born 6 June 1841, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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

1860 Marriage of Child
Adelaide DESBIENS married 20 February 1860, Laterrière, Québec, Canada to Germain TREMBLAY

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.