Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES

(b. 4 December 1826 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 17 December 1900 , Saint-Hilarion, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES was born 4 December 1826 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES was the child of Etienne DESGAGNES and Modeste LECLERC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph DESGAGNES and Marie-Thecle TREMBLAY (maternal) Basile LECLERC and Josephte ST-PIERRE

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

Marie-Virginie married Eusebe LAVOIE 19 September 1853 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Eusebe LAVOIE was born 1 March 1829 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Eusebe died 16 March 1894 in Saint-Hilarion, Québec, Canada (Settrington). Eusebe was the child of Laurent LAVOIE and Marie BOIVIN.

Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES died 17 December 1900 in Saint-Hilarion, 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 Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES

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Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES married

Eusebe LAVOIE-- Date: 19 September 1853 Place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

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Eusebe LAVOIE was the child of Laurent LAVOIE and Marie BOIVIN

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Children of Eusebe LAVOIE and Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES:

Marie-Modeste LAVOIE (b.abt. 1845, , Québec Province, Canada d. April 1912, Saint-Hilarion, Québec, Canada )
m. Benjamin TREMBLAY 7 October 1884 in Saint-Hilarion, Québec, Canada (Settrington)

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1826 Birth
4 December 1826
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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

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.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Virginie DESGAGNES and Eusebe LAVOIE 19 September 1853, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

She was 26 years old.

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.