Hippolyte GIRARD

Born

2 December 1809 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

17 June 1894 , Laterrière, Québec, Canada

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François GIRARD Josephte GAUTHIER

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Hippolyte GIRARD was born 2 December 1809 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Hippolyte GIRARD was the child of François GIRARD and Josephte GAUTHIER

and the grandchild of: (paternal) François GIRARD and Madeleine TREMBLAY (maternal) Louis GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Dorothee BOUCHARD

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Hippolyte married Virginie COTE 19 January 1830 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Virginie COTE was born 9 June 1808 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Virginie was the child of Louis-Urbain COTE and Felicite TREMBLAY.

Hippolyte GIRARD died 17 June 1894 in Laterrière, 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.

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Hippolyte GIRARD married

Virginie COTE-- Date: 19 January 1830 Place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada

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Virginie COTE was the child of Louis-Urbain COTE and Felicite TREMBLAY

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Children of Hippolyte GIRARD and Virginie COTE

Eulalie GIRARD (b.9 January 1831, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. 20 December 1915, Alma, Québec, Canada )
m. Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS) 31 August 1852 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Luce GIRARD (b.6 November 1837, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. 22 December 1919, Péribonka, Quebec, Canada)
m. Hubert-Aubert TREMBLAY 6 May 1861 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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1809 Birth
2 December 1809
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 Marriage / Partner
Hippolyte GIRARD and Virginie COTE 19 January 1830, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

He was 20 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1831 Birth of Child
Eulalie GIRARD was born 9 January 1831, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Hippolyte was 21 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

1837 Birth of Child
Luce GIRARD was born 6 November 1837, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Hippolyte was 27 years old.

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.

1852 Marriage of Child
Eulalie GIRARD married 31 August 1852, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada to Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS)

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

1861 Marriage of Child
Luce GIRARD married 6 May 1861, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Hubert-Aubert TREMBLAY

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.