Denis TREMBLAY

Born

21 February 1813 , Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada

Died

1 July 1874 , Roberval, Québec, Canada

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Remi TREMBLAY Emerentienne-Emerance SIMARD

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Denis TREMBLAY was born 21 February 1813 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada

Denis TREMBLAY was the child of Remi TREMBLAY and Emerentienne-Emerance SIMARD

and the grandchild of: (paternal) Abraham-Isaac TREMBLAY and Agnes POULIN (maternal) Claude-Jean-Francois SIMARD and Euphronsine AMIOT dite VILLENEUVE

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Denis married Thérèse THERRIEN 9 November 1830 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Thérèse THERRIEN was born 21 December 1802 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Thérèse died 23 September 1874 in Roberval, Québec, Canada (Lac-Saint-Jean). Thérèse was the child of René THERRIEN and Therese GUAY.

Denis TREMBLAY died 1 July 1874 in Roberval, Québec, Canada .
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From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Denis TREMBLAY married

Thérèse THERRIEN-- Date: 9 November 1830 Place: Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada
Thérèse THERRIEN was the child of René THERRIEN and Therese GUAY

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Children of Denis TREMBLAY and Thérèse THERRIEN

Josephte TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1838, , Québec Province, Canada d. 6 May 1899, Saint-Prime, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada)

Celina TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1844, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1813 Birth
21 February 1813
Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, 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 Marriage / Partner
Denis TREMBLAY and Thérèse THERRIEN 9 November 1830, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

He was 17 years old.

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

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 - 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.