Andre DRAGON

(b. 31 March 1784 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Province of Québec, Canada d. 15 April 1879 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Andre DRAGON was born 31 March 1784 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Province of Québec, Canada

Andre DRAGON was the child of Hippolyte GUAY dit DARAGON and Agathe LUSSIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis GUAY dit DARAGON and Marguerite CIRCÉ DITE ST-MICHEL (maternal) Christophe LUSSIER and Angélique DUHAMEL dite SANSFAÇON

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

Andre married Felicite DUDEVOIR 8 July 1811 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Felicite DUDEVOIR was born 5 August 1781 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Felicite died 16 June 1860 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Felicite was the child of Pierre-Claude DUDEVOIR and Marie-Felix-Felicite GODU.

Andre DRAGON died 15 April 1879 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Andre DRAGON 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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Andre DRAGON married

Felicite DUDEVOIR-- Date: 8 July 1811 Place: Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada
Felicite DUDEVOIR was the child of Pierre-Claude DUDEVOIR and Marie-Felix-Felicite GODU

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Children of Andre DRAGON and Felicite DUDEVOIR:

Sophie DRAGON dite QUAY (b.30 August 1814, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 24 April 1865, Saint-Jude, Canada East)
m. Pierre-Germain PHANEUF 31 May 1853 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

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1784 Birth
31 March 1784
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1811 Marriage / Partner
Andre DRAGON and Felicite DUDEVOIR 8 July 1811, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

He was 27 years old.

1814 Birth of Child
Sophie DRAGON dite QUAY was born 30 August 1814, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Andre was 30 years old.

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

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
Sophie DRAGON dite QUAY married 31 May 1853, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada to Pierre-Germain PHANEUF

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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Felicite DUDEVOIR died 16 June 1860, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Death of Child
Sophie DRAGON dite QUAY died 24 April 1865, Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada

Andre was 81 years old.

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.