Ovide TREMBLAY

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28 March 1825 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

18 November 1891 , Saint-Alphonse-de-Liguori, Canada

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François TREMBLAY Rosalie TREMBLAY

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Born: 28 March 1825 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: François TREMBLAY

Mother: Rosalie TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: Etienne TREMBLAY , Marie-Françoise LAVOIE

Maternal grandparents: Godefroy TREMBLAY , Marie-Felicite LAJOIE

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Ovide married Olympe ST-GELAIS 9 October 1848 in La Baie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 8 children.
Olympe ST-GELAIS was born 17 August 1828 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. Olympe died 1 December 1903 in Roberval, Québec, Canada (Lac-Saint-Jean). Olympe was the child of Bernard-Isaie ST-GELAIS and Marie-Judith FORTIN.

Ovide TREMBLAY died 18 November 1891 in Saint-Alphonse-de-Liguori, Canada.
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Olympe ST-GELAIS
Marriage date: 9 October 1848
Marriage place: La Baie, Canada East
Olympe ST-GELAIS was the child of Bernard-Isaie ST-GELAIS and Marie-Judith FORTIN

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Children of Ovide TREMBLAY and Olympe ST-GELAIS

Philomene TREMBLAY

Born: 9 May 1850, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 9 May 1935, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada

Marie TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1852, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 2 August 1930, La Baie, Québec, Canada

Married: Stanislas SIMARD 7 January 1873 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Anicet TREMBLAY

Born: 16 April 1854, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 2 April 1924, Saint-Bruno, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

Married: Francoise TREMBLAY 9 April 1877 Place: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

Elie TREMBLAY

Born: 6 November 1856, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 25 April 1922, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Theophile TREMBLAY

Born: 28 August 1860, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 4 November 1946, Saint-Bruno, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

Achille TREMBLAY

Born: 15 May 1865, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 2 May 1951, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Alphide TREMBLAY

Born: 31 October 1867, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 6 October 1957, La Tuque, Quebec, Canada

Eva TREMBLAY

Born: 25 September 1872, La Baie, Québec, Canada
Died: 30 December 1943, Saint-Prime, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

Married: Adelard PERRON 5 August 1889 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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Birth — 1825
28 March 1825
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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

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)

1848 Marriage / Partner
Ovide TREMBLAY and Olympe ST-GELAIS 9 October 1848, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

He was 23 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1850 Birth of Child
Philomene TREMBLAY was born 9 May 1850, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Ovide was 25 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Birth of Child
Anicet TREMBLAY was born 16 April 1854, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Ovide was 29 years old.

1856 Birth of Child
Elie TREMBLAY was born 6 November 1856, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Ovide was 31 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

1860 Birth of Child
Theophile TREMBLAY was born 28 August 1860, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Ovide was 35 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Birth of Child
Achille TREMBLAY was born 15 May 1865, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Ovide was 40 years old.

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

1867 Birth of Child
Alphide TREMBLAY was born 31 October 1867, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Ovide was 42 years old.

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
Eva TREMBLAY was born 25 September 1872, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Ovide was 47 years old.

1873 Marriage of Child
Marie TREMBLAY married 7 January 1873, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Stanislas SIMARD

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 Marriage of Child
Anicet TREMBLAY married 9 April 1877, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Francoise TREMBLAY

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)

1889 Marriage of Child
Eva TREMBLAY married 5 August 1889, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Adelard PERRON