Pierre-Benjamin LEVASSEUR

(b. 30 April 1835 , Trois-Pistoles, Lower Canada d. 4 August 1882 , Saint-François, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Pierre-Benjamin LEVASSEUR was born 30 April 1835 in Trois-Pistoles, Lower Canada

Pierre-Benjamin LEVASSEUR was the child of ? and ?

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Pierre-Benjamin married Marie DAIGLE abt. 1874 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie DAIGLE was born abt. 1850

Pierre-Benjamin LEVASSEUR died 4 August 1882 in Saint-François, Madawaska, New Brunswick, 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.

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Pierre-Benjamin LEVASSEUR married

Marie DAIGLE-- Date: abt. 1874 Place:

Children of Pierre-Benjamin LEVASSEUR and Marie DAIGLE:

Alcime Joseph LEVASSEUR (b.26 May 1874, Saint-François, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada d. 24 October 1954, Waterville, Maine, USA)
m. Annie Marie KENNEDY 17 June 1895

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1835 Birth
30 April 1835
Trois-Pistoles, Lower Canada

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.

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.

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.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Birth of Child
Alcime Joseph LEVASSEUR was born 26 May 1874, Saint-François, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada

Pierre-Benjamin was 39 years old.

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)