Emilien TREMBLAY

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22 July 1821 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

7 September 1903 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Antoine TREMBLAY Geneviève BOUCHARD

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Born: 22 July 1821 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Antoine TREMBLAY

Mother: Geneviève BOUCHARD

Paternal grandparents: Vincent-Etienne TREMBLAY , Cecile TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents: Godefroy BOUCHARD , Charlotte TREMBLAY

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Emilien married Martine LAPOINTE 8 May 1848 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 11 children.
Martine LAPOINTE was born 25 October 1829 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Martine died 17 December 1905 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Martine was the child of Georges AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie DUCHESNE.

Emilien TREMBLAY died 7 September 1903 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Emilien TREMBLAY married

Martine LAPOINTE
Marriage date: 8 May 1848
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Canada East
Martine LAPOINTE was the child of Georges AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie DUCHESNE

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Children of Emilien TREMBLAY and Martine LAPOINTE

Catherine TREMBLAY

Born: 3 June 1849, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: 23 August 1881, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Clovis TREMBLAY

Born: 3 March 1851, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: 17 April 1922, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Married: Jessie BOILY 15 January 1878 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Georges TREMBLAY

Born: 13 August 1853, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: 3 May 1921, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada

Marie TREMBLAY

Born: 2 April 1857, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: 31 December 1922, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Alfred TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1861, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Delima TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1862, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Francois TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1863, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Malvina TREMBLAY 4 September 1883 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Marie-Laure TREMBLAY

Born: 2 December 1863, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: 17 July 1934, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Zoe TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1865, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Sara TREMBLAY

Born: 25 August 1867, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: 2 March 1921, , Canada

Victorine TREMBLAY

Born: 23 July 1874, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada
Died: 1 November 1955, St-Gédéon, Lac St-Jean, Quebec, Canada

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Birth — 1821
22 July 1821
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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 - 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)

1848 Marriage / Partner
Emilien TREMBLAY and Martine LAPOINTE 8 May 1848, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 26 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 Birth of Child
Catherine TREMBLAY was born 3 June 1849, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Emilien was 27 years old.

1851 Birth of Child
Clovis TREMBLAY was born 3 March 1851, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Emilien was 29 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Birth of Child
Georges TREMBLAY was born 13 August 1853, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Emilien was 32 years old.

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.

1857 Birth of Child
Marie TREMBLAY was born 2 April 1857, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Emilien was 35 years old.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1863 Birth of Child
Marie-Laure TREMBLAY was born 2 December 1863, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Emilien 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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1867 Birth of Child
Sara TREMBLAY was born 25 August 1867, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Emilien was 46 years old.

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
Victorine TREMBLAY was born 23 July 1874, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Emilien was 53 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 Marriage of Child
Clovis TREMBLAY married 15 January 1878, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Jessie BOILY

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 Death of Child
Catherine TREMBLAY died 23 August 1881, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Emilien was 60 years old.

1883 Marriage of Child
Francois TREMBLAY married 4 September 1883, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Malvina TREMBLAY

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)