Catherine SIMARD

Born

19 December 1795 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

27 November 1886 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Catherine married Augustin TREMBLAY 2 March 1829 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Augustin TREMBLAY was born 12 December 1801 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . Augustin was the child of Augustin TREMBLAY and Agnes COTE .

Parents & Family of Catherine SIMARD

Parents of Catherine SIMARD

Father

Jean SIMARD

Mother

Catherine PERRON

Grandparents of Catherine SIMARD

Paternal grandparents

Joseph SIMARD Marie-Victoire-Desanges LAVOIE

Maternal grandparents

Amable PERRON Brigitte TREMBLAY

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Catherine SIMARD

Catherine SIMARD married

Augustin TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 2 March 1829
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Augustin TREMBLAY was the child of Augustin TREMBLAY and Agnes COTE

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Children of Augustin TREMBLAY and Catherine SIMARD

Josephine TREMBLAY

Born: 10 December 1833, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: 15 August 1868, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Mathilde TREMBLAY

Born: 8 October 1835, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: 4 January 1907, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada

Married: Neree SIMARD 13 February 1855 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East

Jacob TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1836, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 13 June 1914, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Married: Sophie BOUCHARD 13 October 1863 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East

Charles TREMBLAY

Born: 15 May 1841, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: 31 October 1898, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Married: Florestine TREMBLAY 7 September 1869 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Auguste TREMBLAY

Born: 18 June 1843, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: , Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Marie Louise SIMARD 18 October 1874 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

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Québec Place Names Through History

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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 — 1795
19 December 1795
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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)

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 Marriage / Partner
Catherine SIMARD and Augustin TREMBLAY 2 March 1829, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 33 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1833 Birth of Child
Josephine TREMBLAY was born 10 December 1833, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Catherine was 38 years old.

1835 Birth of Child
Mathilde TREMBLAY was born 8 October 1835, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Catherine was 39 years old.

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

1841 Birth of Child
Charles TREMBLAY was born 15 May 1841, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Catherine was 45 years old.

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1843 Birth of Child
Auguste TREMBLAY was born 18 June 1843, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Catherine was 47 years old.

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.

1855 Marriage of Child
Mathilde TREMBLAY married 13 February 1855, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East to Neree SIMARD

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

1863 Marriage of Child
Jacob TREMBLAY married 13 October 1863, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East to Sophie BOUCHARD

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

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1868 Death of Child
Josephine TREMBLAY died 15 August 1868, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Catherine was 72 years old.

1869 Marriage of Child
Charles TREMBLAY married 7 September 1869, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada to Florestine TREMBLAY

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Marriage of Child
Auguste TREMBLAY married 18 October 1874, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada to Marie Louise SIMARD

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

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

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)

Death — 1886
27 November 1886
Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 91.

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