Jerome FORTIN

Born

20 April 1801 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

21 January 1880 , Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

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Jacques FORTIN Judith TREMBLAY

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Born: 20 April 1801 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Jacques FORTIN

Mother: Judith TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: François FORTIN , Geneviève OTIS dite LANGLAIS

Maternal grandparents: François TREMBLAY , Felicite BOULIANNE

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jerome married Marie-Luce GIRARD 9 January 1827 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Luce GIRARD was born 6 May 1807 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Marie-Luce died 31 May 1879 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre). Marie-Luce was the child of Elie-Elisee GIRARD and Marie-Thérèse TREMBLAY.

Jerome FORTIN died 21 January 1880 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Jerome FORTIN married

Marie-Luce GIRARD
Marriage date: 9 January 1827
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Marie-Luce GIRARD was the child of Elie-Elisee GIRARD and Marie-Thérèse TREMBLAY

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Children of Jerome FORTIN and Marie-Luce GIRARD

Dina FORTIN

Born: 29 November 1832, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada
Died: 18 May 1922, Roberval, Québec, Canada

Married: Severin TREMBLAY 15 February 1858 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Edith FORTIN

Born: abt. 1836, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 26 May 1871, Saint-Fulgence, Québec, Canada

Married: Napoleon TREMBLAY 15 February 1858

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Birth — 1801
20 April 1801
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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Jerome FORTIN and Marie-Luce GIRARD 9 January 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 25 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Dina FORTIN was born 29 November 1832, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Jerome was 31 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)

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 Marriage of Child
Dina FORTIN married 15 February 1858, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Severin TREMBLAY

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.

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.

1871 Death of Child
Edith FORTIN died 26 May 1871, Saint-Fulgence, Québec, Canada (L’Anse au Foin)

Jerome was 70 years old.

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

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)

1879 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Luce GIRARD died 31 May 1879, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre)

Death — 1880
21 January 1880
Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 78.

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