Joseph DEGAGNE

(b. 11 August 1806 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada d. 25 May 1882 , Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph DEGAGNE was born 11 August 1806 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada

Joseph DEGAGNE was the child of Joseph-Marie DESGAGNES and Ursule GAGNON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph DESGAGNES and Marie-Thecle TREMBLAY (maternal) François GAGNON and Brigitte LAJOIE

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

Joseph married Celanire COTE 11 November 1828 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Celanire COTE was born abt. 1808 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Celanire was the child of Joseph COTE and Elisabeth SIMARD.

Joseph DEGAGNE died 25 May 1882 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Joseph DEGAGNE 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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Family and Children of Joseph DEGAGNE

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Joseph DEGAGNE married

Celanire COTE-- Date: 11 November 1828 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Celanire COTE was the child of Joseph COTE and Elisabeth SIMARD

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Children of Joseph DEGAGNE and Celanire COTE:

Eloi DEGAGNE (DESGAGNE) (b.7 August 1833, Isle-aux-Coudres, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Marie-Rose BOUCHARD 2 August 1853 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1806 Birth
11 August 1806
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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Joseph DEGAGNE and Celanire COTE 11 November 1828, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 22 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1833 Birth of Child
Eloi DEGAGNE (DESGAGNE) was born 7 August 1833, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres)

Joseph was 27 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)

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 of Child
Eloi DEGAGNE (DESGAGNE) married 2 August 1853, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Marie-Rose BOUCHARD

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.