Benjamin TREMBLAY

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2 November 1812 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

4 November 1894 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

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Benjamin TREMBLAY Marguerite NAVARRE

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Born: 2 November 1812 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Father: Benjamin TREMBLAY

Mother: Marguerite NAVARRE

Paternal grandparents: Pierre-François TREMBLAY , Madeleine GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste NAVARRE , Marie-Madeleine THIBAULT (THIBEAULT)

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Benjamin married Marie-Angele POTVIN 9 January 1838 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Marie-Angele POTVIN was born 13 February 1816 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Marie-Angele was the child of Michel POTVIN and Madeleine GINGRAS.

Benjamin TREMBLAY died 4 November 1894 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada .
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Benjamin TREMBLAY married

Marie-Angele POTVIN
Marriage date: 9 January 1838
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Marie-Angele POTVIN was the child of Michel POTVIN and Madeleine GINGRAS

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Children of Benjamin TREMBLAY and Marie-Angele POTVIN

Adeline TREMBLAY

Born: 19 February 1844, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Malvina TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1854, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 16 March 1891, Drummondville, Québec, Canada

Napoleon TREMBLAY

Born: 16 February 1855, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: 13 August 1926, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Edouard-Arthur TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1858, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

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Birth — 1812
2 November 1812
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

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
Benjamin TREMBLAY and Marie-Angele POTVIN 9 January 1838, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 25 years old.

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)

1844 Birth of Child
Adeline TREMBLAY was born 19 February 1844, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Benjamin was 31 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Napoleon TREMBLAY was born 16 February 1855, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Benjamin was 42 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.

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)

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 - 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 Death of Child
Malvina TREMBLAY died 16 March 1891, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Benjamin was 78 years old.

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

Death — 1894
4 November 1894
Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 82.

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