Jean TREMBLAY

Born

19 August 1811 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

7 January 1880 , St-Etienne-des-Grès, Maskinongé, Quebec, Canada

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Zacharie TREMBLAY Marie-Thérèse DUFOUR

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Born: 19 August 1811 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Zacharie TREMBLAY

Mother: Marie-Thérèse DUFOUR

Paternal grandparents: Jean TREMBLAY , Marie-Louise TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents: Augustin-Roch DUFOUR , Marie-Thérèse-Suzanne TREMBLAY

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Jean married Marie HARVEY 2 March 1835 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie HARVEY was born 8 August 1812 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Marie died 24 December 1869 in Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Témiscouata, Canada. Marie was the child of Sebastien HARVEY and Catherine DENIS dite QUIMPER.

Jean TREMBLAY died 7 January 1880 in St-Etienne-des-Grès, Maskinongé, Quebec, Canada.
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Marie HARVEY
Marriage date: 2 March 1835
Marriage place: Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

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Marie HARVEY was the child of Sebastien HARVEY and Catherine DENIS dite QUIMPER

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Children of Jean TREMBLAY and Marie HARVEY

Celina TREMBLAY

Born: 29 October 1845, L'Islet, Canada East
Died: 3 September 1912, St-Gérard-Magella, Wolfe, Canada

Henriette TREMBLAY

Born: 24 January 1848, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: 6 November 1870, Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada

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Birth — 1811
19 August 1811
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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Jean TREMBLAY and Marie HARVEY 2 March 1835, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

He was 23 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

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)

1845 Birth of Child
Celina TREMBLAY was born 29 October 1845, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

Jean was 34 years old.

1848 Birth of Child
Henriette TREMBLAY was born 24 January 1848, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Jean was 36 years old.

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.