flag male ancestor  Zephirin  GAGNE

  (b. 16 August 1820 La Malbaie, Lower Canada   d. 9 March 1894 Drummondville, Québec, Canada )  

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Zephirin GAGNE was born 16 August 1820 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Zephirin GAGNE was the child of Pierre GAGNE   and   Marguerite BARRETTE and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Jean-François GAGNE and Suzanne DESBIENS (maternal)  Basile BARRETTE and Marguerite SIMARD

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

Zephirin  married  Phebee LAVOIE 21 April 1846 in La Baie, Canada East .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Phebee LAVOIE  was born 25 October 1826 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic).  Phebee died 24 July 1914 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville).  Phebee was the child of Etienne LAVOIE and Marie-Josephte BOUCHARD.

Zephirin GAGNE died 9 March 1894 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Zephirin GAGNE 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

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History
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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Family and Children of Zephirin GAGNE

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Zephirin GAGNE married flag female ancestor Phebee LAVOIE-- Date: 21 April 1846 Place: La Baie, Canada East
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Phebee LAVOIE was the child of Etienne LAVOIE and Marie-Josephte BOUCHARD




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Children of Zephirin GAGNE and Phebee LAVOIE:

flag female ancestor Sophie GAGNE (b.23 November 1849, La Baie, Canada East   d. 11 March 1923, Ste-Flore, Canada)
m. Zephirin TREMBLAY 13 January 1874 in Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada (St-Jérôme de Metabetchouan)



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birth1820 Birth
16 August 1820
La Malbaie, Lower Canada
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)
marriage1846 Marriage / Partner
Zephirin GAGNE and Phebee LAVOIE 21 April 1846, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

He was 25 years old.
1849 Birth of Child
Sophie GAGNE was born 23 November 1849, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Zephirin was 29 years old.
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
marriage1874 Marriage of Child
Sophie GAGNE married 13 January 1874, Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada (St-Jérôme de Metabetchouan) to Zephirin TREMBLAY
Prime Minister of Canada1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
News1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)
News1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
Prime Minister of Canada1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada
death1894 Death
9 March 1894
Drummondville, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 73.
Added: 6/10/2025 10:24:17 AM - Updated: 6/10/2025 10:26:41 AM

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