Joseph GAGNON

(b. 19 May 1802 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada d. 23 April 1868 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph GAGNON was born 19 May 1802 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada

Joseph GAGNON was the child of Pierre GAGNON and Marie-Rosalie BOUCHARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph GAGNON and Marguerite HERVÉ (HARVEY) (maternal) Joseph-Louis BOUCHARD and Madeleine TREMBLAY

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

Joseph married Madeleine DESBIENS 20 November 1838 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Madeleine DESBIENS was born 26 October 1813 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Madeleine died 21 March 1907 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Madeleine was the child of Vital DESBIENS and Madeleine HARVEY.

Joseph GAGNON died 23 April 1868 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada .
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Did you know that most people with the Gagnon name came from three sons of Pierre Gagnon (Gaignon) and Renee Roger of Tourouvre, France, who came to New France (Quebec) around 1637? Mathurin, Jean and Pierre Gagnon, along with their wives did much to populate North America with the proud Gagnon surname!

Occupation

Joseph GAGNON was a Cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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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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Joseph GAGNON married

Madeleine DESBIENS-- Date: 20 November 1838 Place: Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada

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Madeleine DESBIENS was the child of Vital DESBIENS and Madeleine HARVEY

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Children of Joseph GAGNON and Madeleine DESBIENS:

Philomene GAGNON (b.29 November 1841, Isle-aux-Coudres, Canada East d. 14 April 1881, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada )
m. Andre TREMBLAY 17 July 1866 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

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1802 Birth
19 May 1802
Isle-aux-Coudres, 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

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
Joseph GAGNON and Madeleine DESBIENS 20 November 1838, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

He was 36 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

1841 Birth of Child
Philomene GAGNON was born 29 November 1841, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Joseph was 39 years old.

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)

1866 Marriage of Child
Philomene GAGNON married 17 July 1866, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres) to Andre TREMBLAY

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.