Adolphe TREMBLAY

Born

13 May 1831 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

18 April 1897 , Saint-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice, Canada

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Benjamin TREMBLAY Marguerite NAVARRE

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Born: 13 May 1831 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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Adolphe married Eleonore-Honorat GAGNON 7 November 1854 in La Baie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Eleonore-Honorat GAGNON was born abt. 1835 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Eleonore-Honorat was the child of Joseph GAGNON and Luce GILBERT.

Adolphe TREMBLAY died 18 April 1897 in Saint-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice, Canada.
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1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Adolphe TREMBLAY married

Eleonore-Honorat GAGNON
Marriage date: 7 November 1854
Marriage place: La Baie, Canada East
Eleonore-Honorat GAGNON was the child of Joseph GAGNON and Luce GILBERT

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Children of Adolphe TREMBLAY and Eleonore-Honorat GAGNON

Hermias TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1856, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 22 September 1927, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Victoire TREMBLAY

Born: 13 May 1857, La Baie, Canada East
Died: ,

Cedulie TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1860, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Delphis TREMBLAY 13 October 1879 Place: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

Francois TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1863, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 5 January 1911, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Louise TREMBLAY

Born: 3 January 1869, La Baie, Québec, Canada
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Alfred TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1876, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

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Birth — 1831
13 May 1831
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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.

1854 Marriage / Partner
Adolphe TREMBLAY and Eleonore-Honorat GAGNON 7 November 1854, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

He was 23 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.

1857 Birth of Child
Victoire TREMBLAY was born 13 May 1857, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Adolphe was 26 years old.

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.

1869 Birth of Child
Louise TREMBLAY was born 3 January 1869, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Adolphe was 37 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 Marriage of Child
Cedulie TREMBLAY married 13 October 1879, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Delphis TREMBLAY

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 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada