David TREMBLAY

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1 December 1835 , Henryville, Lower Canada

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4 October 1878 , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

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Joseph TREMBLAY Marguerite CAMPBELL

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Born: 1 December 1835 in Henryville, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph TREMBLAY

Mother: Marguerite CAMPBELL

Paternal grandparents: Antoine-Michel TREMBLAY , Marie-Anne LECLERC

Maternal grandparents: Jeremie CAMPBELL , Marie-Amable DUBOIS dite RONDEL

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David married Judith MAILLE 21 September 1859 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Judith MAILLE was born 18 March 1842 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada. Judith died 15 January 1921 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Judith was the child of Joseph MAILLE and Marguerite COUPAL.

David TREMBLAY died 4 October 1878 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada .
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Judith MAILLE
Marriage date: 21 September 1859
Marriage place: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada East

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Judith MAILLE was the child of Joseph MAILLE and Marguerite COUPAL

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Children of David TREMBLAY and Judith MAILLE

Mathilda TREMBLAY

Born: 23 May 1869, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada
Died: 6 May 1927, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1835
1 December 1835
Henryville, 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.

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

1859 Marriage / Partner
David TREMBLAY and Judith MAILLE 21 September 1859, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester)

He was 23 years old.

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
Mathilda TREMBLAY was born 23 May 1869, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester)

David was 33 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.