Joseph BOISSELLE

(b. 3 May 1818 , Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada d. 25 April 1881 , Lambton, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph BOISSELLE was born 3 May 1818 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Joseph BOISSELLE was the child of ? and ?

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Joseph married Perpetue ROY 21 September 1841 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Perpetue ROY was born 31 January 1826 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais). Perpetue died 19 December 1868 in Lambton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Vital).

Joseph BOISSELLE died 25 April 1881 in Lambton, 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.

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Joseph BOISSELLE married

Perpetue ROY-- Date: 21 September 1841 Place: Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Canada East

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Children of Joseph BOISSELLE and Perpetue ROY:

François-Xavier BOISSELLE (b.15 October 1860, Lambton, Canada East d. 13 September 1940, South Junction, Manitoba, Canada)
m. Marie-Philomene TURGEON 27 July 1881 in Lambton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Vital)

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1818 Birth
3 May 1818
Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Joseph BOISSELLE and Perpetue ROY 21 September 1841, Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais)

He was 23 years old.

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

1860 Birth of Child
François-Xavier BOISSELLE was born 15 October 1860, Lambton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Vital)

Joseph was 42 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.