Elzear TREMBLAY

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18 September 1836 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

29 April 1898 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY Mathilde POTVIN

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Born: 18 September 1836 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY

Mother: Mathilde POTVIN

Paternal grandparents: Benoni TREMBLAY , Ursule TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Marie POITEVIN dit POTVIN , Agnes BOUCHARD

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Elzear married Marie TREMBLAY 31 August 1864 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Marie TREMBLAY was born 10 October 1845 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Marie was the child of André TREMBLAY and Adelaide TREMBLAY.

Elzear TREMBLAY died 29 April 1898 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Marie TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 31 August 1864
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

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Marie TREMBLAY was the child of André TREMBLAY and Adelaide TREMBLAY

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Children of Elzear TREMBLAY and Marie TREMBLAY

Marie-Louise TREMBLAY

Born: 26 September 1865, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Patrice TREMBLAY 12 January 1887 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Marie-Eugenie TREMBLAY

Born: 26 August 1866, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: ,

Marie TREMBLAY

Born: 23 August 1869, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Elzear TREMBLAY 28 January 1902 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Marie-Anna TREMBLAY

Born: 5 January 1874, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Joseph-Resimond TREMBLAY 18 January 1897 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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Birth — 1836
18 September 1836
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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)

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)

1864 Marriage / Partner
Elzear TREMBLAY and Marie TREMBLAY 31 August 1864, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 27 years old.

1865 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise TREMBLAY was born 26 September 1865, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Elzear was 29 years old.

1866 Birth of Child
Marie-Eugenie TREMBLAY was born 26 August 1866, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Elzear was 29 years old.

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.

1869 Birth of Child
Marie TREMBLAY was born 23 August 1869, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Elzear was 32 years old.

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

1874 Birth of Child
Marie-Anna TREMBLAY was born 5 January 1874, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Elzear was 37 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 - 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)

1887 Marriage of Child
Marie-Louise TREMBLAY married 12 January 1887, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Patrice TREMBLAY

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)

1897 Marriage of Child
Marie-Anna TREMBLAY married 18 January 1897, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Joseph-Resimond TREMBLAY