Medard LUSSIER

(b. 28 August 1813 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 12 January 1880 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada )

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Medard LUSSIER was born 28 August 1813 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Medard LUSSIER was the child of Joseph LUSSIER and Marie-Anne NORMANDIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Amable LUSSIER and Marie-Josephe ROUGEAU dite BERGER (maternal) Pierre NORMANDIN and Marie-Angélique MONET

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

Medard married Salomee BOURDEAU 1 July 1833 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Salomee BOURDEAU was born 15 August 1814 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Salomee died 14 July 1870 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Salomee was the child of Pierre BOURDEAU and Catherine TOUPIN.

Medard LUSSIER died 12 January 1880 in La Prairie, 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
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Family and Children of Medard LUSSIER

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Medard LUSSIER married

Salomee BOURDEAU-- Date: 1 July 1833 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Salomee BOURDEAU was the child of Pierre BOURDEAU and Catherine TOUPIN

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Children of Medard LUSSIER and Salomee BOURDEAU:

Salomee LUSSIER (b.5 December 1839, La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 17 October 1860, L'Acadie, Canada East )
m. Moise TREMBLAY 20 October 1857 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1813 Birth
28 August 1813
La Prairie, 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)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1833 Marriage / Partner
Medard LUSSIER and Salomee BOURDEAU 1 July 1833, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 19 years old.

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)

1839 Birth of Child
Salomee LUSSIER was born 5 December 1839, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Medard was 26 years old.

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.

1857 Marriage of Child
Salomee LUSSIER married 20 October 1857, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Moise TREMBLAY

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1860 Death of Child
Salomee LUSSIER died 17 October 1860, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Medard was 47 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.