Roger TREMBLAY

Born

23 December 1815 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

30 January 1892 , Saint-Prime, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

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Michel TREMBLAY Angele SIMARD

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Born: 23 December 1815 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Michel TREMBLAY

Mother: Angele SIMARD

Paternal grandparents: Magloire-Samson-David TREMBLAY , Felicite POITEVIN dite POTVIN

Maternal grandparents: Joseph SIMARD , Rosalie RODRIGUE

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Roger married Eleonore POTVIN 22 November 1842 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East . Eleonore POTVIN was born 23 March 1822 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Eleonore died 22 April 1906 in Saint-Prime, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada. Eleonore was the child of Pierre POTVIN and Euphrosine BOILY.

Roger TREMBLAY died 30 January 1892 in Saint-Prime, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada.
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Roger TREMBLAY married

Eleonore POTVIN
Marriage date: 22 November 1842
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Eleonore POTVIN was the child of Pierre POTVIN and Euphrosine BOILY

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Birth — 1815
23 December 1815
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 - 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

1842 Marriage / Partner
Roger TREMBLAY and Eleonore POTVIN 22 November 1842, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 26 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)

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)

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.