Claire FORTIN

Born

30 June 1801 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

14 June 1873 , Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Claire FORTIN

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Born: 30 June 1801 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Parents of Claire FORTIN

Father

Moise FORTIN

Mother

Julie SIMARD

Grandparents of Claire FORTIN

Paternal grandparents

Louis-Marie FORTIN Catherine-Felicite SIMARD

Maternal grandparents

Etienne SIMARD Julie SIMARD

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

Claire married Felix TREMBLAY 25 July 1826 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Felix TREMBLAY was born 19 October 1795 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . Felix died 5 March 1867 in Rimouski, Canada East . Felix was the child of Etienne TREMBLAY and Scholastique DEMEULES (DESMEULES).

Claire FORTIN died 14 June 1873 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Claire FORTIN

Claire FORTIN married

Felix TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 25 July 1826
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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Felix TREMBLAY was the child of Etienne TREMBLAY and Scholastique DEMEULES (DESMEULES)

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Felix TREMBLAY and Claire FORTIN

Adeline TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1827, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Gregoire TREMBLAY

Born: 1 May 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: 31 January 1916, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Married: Helene TARDIF 9 January 1865 Place: Sainte-Flavie, Canada East

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1801
30 June 1801
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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)

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

1826 Marriage / Partner
Claire FORTIN and Felix TREMBLAY 25 July 1826, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 25 years old.

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

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Gregoire TREMBLAY was born 1 May 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Claire was 25 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)

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)

1865 Marriage of Child
Gregoire TREMBLAY married 9 January 1865, Sainte-Flavie, Canada East to Helene TARDIF

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.