flag female ancestor  Marguerite  BARRETTE

  (b. 8 January 1788 La Malbaie, Province of Québec, Canada   d. 9 January 1877 La Baie, Québec, Canada )  

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Marguerite BARRETTE was born 8 January 1788 in La Malbaie, Province of Québec, Canada

Marguerite BARRETTE was the child of Basile BARRETTE   and   Marguerite SIMARD and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Joseph BARRETTE (BARET) and Marie-Thérèse FORTIN (maternal)  François SIMARD and Marguerite GAGNÉ

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Marguerite  married  Pierre GAGNE 22 January 1811 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Pierre GAGNE  was born 3 November 1788 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic).  Pierre died 29 June 1843 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic).  Pierre was the child of Jean-François GAGNE and Suzanne DESBIENS.

Marguerite BARRETTE died 9 January 1877 in La Baie, Québec, Canada .
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Did You Know? 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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birth1788 Birth
8 January 1788
La Malbaie, Province of Québec, Canada
News1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada
marriage1811 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite BARRETTE and Pierre GAGNE 22 January 1811, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 23 years old.
News1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.
Kings and Queens1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England
1820 Birth of Child
Zephirin GAGNE was born 16 August 1820, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Marguerite was 32 years old.
Kings and Queens1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England
Kings and Queens1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England
News1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1843 Death of Spouse/Partner
Pierre GAGNE died 29 June 1843, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)
marriage1846 Marriage of Child
Zephirin GAGNE married 21 April 1846, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Phebee LAVOIE
News1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.
News1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.
News1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.
News1867 - 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.
Prime Minister of Canada1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada
death1877 Death
9 January 1877
La Baie, Québec, Canada

She died at the age of 89.
Added: 6/10/2025 10:23:07 AM - Updated: 6/10/2025 10:24:17 AM

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