Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE

(b. 8 October 1800 , Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Lower Canada d. 18 October 1871 , Ripon, Quebec, Canada )

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Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE was born 8 October 1800 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Lower Canada

Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE was the child of Joseph-Francois THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE and Marie-Anne DENOMME and the grandchild of: (paternal) François THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE and Louise-Petronille BOULANGER dite ST-PIERRE (maternal) Joseph DENOMME and Marie-Anne DUBOIS

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

Victoire married Vital DEMERS 23 January 1826 in Montebello, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Vital DEMERS was born 11 May 1805 in Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada (Pierrefonds)*. Vital died 16 November 1893 in Ripon, Québec, Canada. Vital was the child of Pierre DEMERS and Veronique LEFEBVRE.

Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE died 18 October 1871 in Ripon, 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.

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 Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE

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Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE married

Vital DEMERS-- Date: 23 January 1826 Place: Montebello, Lower Canada

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Vital DEMERS was the child of Pierre DEMERS and Veronique LEFEBVRE

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Children of Vital DEMERS and Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE:

Julie DEMERS (b.27 November 1827, Montebello, Lower Canada d. 22 February 1885, Saint-André-Avellin, Canada)
m. Joseph LACOSTE 1847

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1800 Birth
8 October 1800
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, 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)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Marriage / Partner
Victoire THOMAS dite TRANCHEMONTAGNE and Vital DEMERS 23 January 1826, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

She was 25 years old.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Julie DEMERS was born 27 November 1827, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

Victoire was 27 years old.

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.