Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME

(b. 2 April 1838 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 6 December 1878 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME was born 2 April 1838 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME was the child of Jean-Baptiste QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME and Agathe GAUDET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME and Françoise JOUBERT (maternal) Francois GAUDET and Agathe GUAY dite DARAGON

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

Toussaint married Philomene BOUSQUET 20 February 1860 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Philomene BOUSQUET was born 4 May 1841 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Philomene died 13 March 1913 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur). Philomene was the child of Hyacinthe BOUSQUET and Genevieve BOUSQUET.

Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME died 6 December 1878 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME

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Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME married

Philomene BOUSQUET-- Date: 20 February 1860 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
Philomene BOUSQUET was the child of Hyacinthe BOUSQUET and Genevieve BOUSQUET

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Children of Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME and Philomene BOUSQUET:

Exilda LAFLAMME (b.6 August 1867, , Québec Province, Canada d. 23 August 1919, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Edouard (Edward) DESROSIER 1888

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1838 Birth
2 April 1838
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

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

1860 Marriage / Partner
Toussaint QUEMENEUR dit LAFLAMME and Philomene BOUSQUET 20 February 1860, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

He was 21 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.