Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE

(b. 23 September 1839 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 11 May 1903 , Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada )

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Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE was born 23 September 1839 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE was the child of Louis PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Monique BOUCHARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) François PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Josephte DROUIN (maternal) Louis BOUCHARD and Emerentienne BOIVIN

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

Louis-Wilfrid married Marie TREMBLAY 3 February 1862 in Chicoutimi, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie TREMBLAY was born 15 May 1843 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Marie died 22 April 1928 in Lac-à-la-Croix, Lac-St-Jean, Quebec, Canada. Marie was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Martine CLAVEAU.

Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE died 11 May 1903 in Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE

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Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE married

Marie TREMBLAY-- Date: 3 February 1862 Place: Chicoutimi, Canada East

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Marie TREMBLAY was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Martine CLAVEAU

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Children of Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Marie TREMBLAY:

Virginie LACHANCE (b.6 April 1871, Saint-Fulgence, Québec, Canada d. 14 July 1930, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )
m. Thomas TREMBLAY 16 June 1891 in Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada (St-Jérôme de Metabetchouan)

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1839 Birth
23 September 1839
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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 / Partner
Louis-Wilfrid PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Marie TREMBLAY 3 February 1862, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

He was 22 years old.

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.

1871 Birth of Child
Virginie LACHANCE was born 6 April 1871, Saint-Fulgence, Québec, Canada (L’Anse au Foin)

Louis-Wilfrid was 31 years old.

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)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1891 Marriage of Child
Virginie LACHANCE married 16 June 1891, Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada (St-Jérôme de Metabetchouan) to Thomas TREMBLAY

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England