Michel LUSSIER

(b. 24 March 1811 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 29 November 1881 , Saint-Édouard, Canada )

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Michel LUSSIER was born 24 March 1811 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Michel LUSSIER was the child of Michel LUSSIER and Catherine-Lucie HEBERT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel LUSSIER and Victoire ÉDELINE dite DELISLE (maternal) Pierre HEBERT and Catherine GUERTIN

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

Michel married Flavie VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN) 22 October 1832 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Flavie VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN) was born 9 August 1806 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Flavie was the child of Charles VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN) and Marie-Desanges LONGTIN.

Michel LUSSIER died 29 November 1881 in Saint-Édouard, 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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Michel LUSSIER married

Flavie VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN)-- Date: 22 October 1832 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada

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Flavie VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN) was the child of Charles VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN) and Marie-Desanges LONGTIN

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Children of Michel LUSSIER and Flavie VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN):

Opportune LUSSIER (b.19 June 1839, Napierville, Lower Canada d. 5 March 1916, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )
m. Auguste TREMBLAY 4 November 1862 in Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard)

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1811 Birth
24 March 1811
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

1832 Marriage / Partner
Michel LUSSIER and Flavie VAUTRIN (VAUDRIN) 22 October 1832, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

He was 21 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
Opportune LUSSIER was born 19 June 1839, Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard)

Michel was 28 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.

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

1862 Marriage of Child
Opportune LUSSIER married 4 November 1862, Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard) to Auguste 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.