Louis GAGNE

(b. 5 June 1794 , Montmagny, Lower Canada d. 22 October 1871 , Rimouski, Québec, Canada )

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Louis GAGNE was born 5 June 1794 in Montmagny, Lower Canada

Louis GAGNE was the child of ? and ?

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Louis married Marie-Francoise-De-Chantal TALBOT 17 February 1824 in Montmagny, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Francoise-De-Chantal TALBOT was born 13 April 1803 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada. Marie-Francoise-De-Chantal died 13 November 1872 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic).

Louis GAGNE died 22 October 1871 in Rimouski, 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
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Family and Children of Louis GAGNE

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Louis GAGNE married

Marie-Francoise-De-Chantal TALBOT-- Date: 17 February 1824 Place: Montmagny, Lower Canada

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Children of Louis GAGNE and Marie-Francoise-De-Chantal TALBOT:

Euphemie GAGNE (b.20 August 1828, Trois-Pistoles, Lower Canada d. 13 September 1899, Saint-Fabien, Québec, Canada)
m. Jean-Baptiste TURCOTTE 18 June 1849 in Saint-Fabien, Québec, Canada

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1794 Birth
5 June 1794
Montmagny, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Louis GAGNE and Marie-Francoise-De-Chantal TALBOT 17 February 1824, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire)

He was 29 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
Euphemie GAGNE was born 20 August 1828, Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges)

Louis was 34 years old.

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 - 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)

1849 Marriage of Child
Euphemie GAGNE married 18 June 1849, Saint-Fabien, Québec, Canada to Jean-Baptiste TURCOTTE

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.