Abel GIRARD

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18 May 1833 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

9 May 1886 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Joachim GIRARD Christine TREMBLAY

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Born: 18 May 1833 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Joachim GIRARD

Mother: Christine TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: Henri GIRARD , Anne AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Maternal grandparents: François-Xavier TREMBLAY , Marie-Madeleine DURETTE

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Abel married Emerance-Emerentienne AUDET dite LAPOINTE 13 February 1855 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Emerance-Emerentienne AUDET dite LAPOINTE was born 18 November 1833 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Emerance-Emerentienne died 30 April 1910 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Emerance-Emerentienne was the child of Barthelemy AUDET and Scholastique GAGNON.

Abel GIRARD died 9 May 1886 in Les Éboulements, 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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Emerance-Emerentienne AUDET dite LAPOINTE
Marriage date: 13 February 1855
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Canada East
Emerance-Emerentienne AUDET dite LAPOINTE was the child of Barthelemy AUDET and Scholastique GAGNON

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Children of Abel GIRARD and Emerance-Emerentienne AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Malvina GIRARD

Born: abt. 1865, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Hildebert TREMBLAY 21 February 1887 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Joseph GIRARD

Born: August 1872, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 29 April 1955, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Married: Cecile TREMBLAY 30 January 1905 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Anna GIRARD

Born: 13 July 1874, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY 13 February 1899 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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Birth — 1833
18 May 1833
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Abel GIRARD and Emerance-Emerentienne AUDET dite LAPOINTE 13 February 1855, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 21 years old.

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.

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.

1872 Birth of Child
Joseph GIRARD was born August 1872, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Abel was 39 years old.

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

1874 Birth of Child
Anna GIRARD was born 13 July 1874, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Abel was 41 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)