Damase TREMBLAY

Born

12 December 1808 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

18 November 1888 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

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Elie TREMBLAY Scholastique LAVOIE

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Born: 12 December 1808 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Elie TREMBLAY

Mother: Scholastique LAVOIE

Paternal grandparents: Louis-Jacques TREMBLAY , Ursule-Sophie-Victoire SIMARD dite LOMBRET

Maternal grandparents: Michel-Rene LAVOIE , Geneviève GAGNE

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Damase married Marie GIRARD 11 January 1836 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie GIRARD was born 20 February 1815 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Marie was the child of Isaac GIRARD and Modeste TREMBLAY.

Damase TREMBLAY died 18 November 1888 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada .
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Damase TREMBLAY married

Marie GIRARD
Marriage date: 11 January 1836
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Marie GIRARD was the child of Isaac GIRARD and Modeste TREMBLAY

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Ovide TREMBLAY

Born: 15 November 1836, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Died: 17 November 1913, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Married: Calixte ST-GELAIS 8 September 1857 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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Birth — 1808
12 December 1808
Les Éboulements, 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 Marriage / Partner
Damase TREMBLAY and Marie GIRARD 11 January 1836, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 27 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Birth of Child
Ovide TREMBLAY was born 15 November 1836, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Damase was 27 years old.

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.

1857 Marriage of Child
Ovide TREMBLAY married 8 September 1857, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Calixte ST-GELAIS

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.