Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE)

(b. 8 October 1813 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 23 November 1887 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE) was born 8 October 1813 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE) 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):

Denis married Francoise THIBAULT 4 November 1835 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Francoise THIBAULT was born 30 August 1817 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Francoise died 1 September 1906 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Francoise was the child of Pascal THIBAULT and Veronique GUÉRIN dite ST-HILAIRE.

Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE) died 23 November 1887 in Les Éboulements, 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 Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE)

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Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE) married

Francoise THIBAULT-- Date: 4 November 1835 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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Francoise THIBAULT was the child of Pascal THIBAULT and Veronique GUÉRIN dite ST-HILAIRE

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Children of Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE) and Francoise THIBAULT:

Gregoire DESGAGNES (b.17 November 1837, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 20 September 1925, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada)
m. Marie MAILLOUX 16 October 1860 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Zeline DESGAGNES (b.6 March 1852, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 2 March 1925, St-Grégoire-le-Grand, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada)
m. Patrice TREMBLAY 3 May 1869 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1813 Birth
8 October 1813
Les Éboulements, 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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Denis DESGAGNES (DEGAGNE) and Francoise THIBAULT 4 November 1835, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 22 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

1837 Birth of Child
Gregoire DESGAGNES was born 17 November 1837, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Denis was 24 years old.

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.

1852 Birth of Child
Zeline DESGAGNES was born 6 March 1852, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Denis was 38 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

1860 Marriage of Child
Gregoire DESGAGNES married 16 October 1860, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Marie MAILLOUX

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 Marriage of Child
Zeline DESGAGNES married 3 May 1869, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Patrice TREMBLAY

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)