Pierre-Alexis TREMBLAY

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28 December 1827 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

4 January 1879 , Québec, Québec, Canada

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Alexis TREMBLAY Josephte DUGUAY

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Born: 28 December 1827 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Father: Alexis TREMBLAY

Mother: Josephte DUGUAY

Paternal grandparents: Alexis TREMBLAY , Felicite GAGNON

Maternal grandparents: Antoine DUGUAY , Genevieve-Josephte DUBOIS dite BRISEBOIS

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Pierre-Alexis married Mary-Ellen CONNOLLY 6 September 1870 in Québec, Québec, Canada . Mary-Ellen CONNOLLY was born 3 July 1831 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Mary-Ellen died 6 November 1891 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Mary-Ellen was the child of Michel CONNOLLY (CONNELLY) and Helene-Eleonore ROBSON.

Pierre-Alexis TREMBLAY died 4 January 1879 in Québec, Québec, Canada .

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Pierre-Alexis TREMBLAY married

Mary-Ellen CONNOLLY
Marriage date: 6 September 1870
Marriage place: Québec, Québec, Canada
Mary-Ellen CONNOLLY was the child of Michel CONNOLLY (CONNELLY) and Helene-Eleonore ROBSON

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Birth — 1827
28 December 1827
La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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)

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.

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.

1870 Marriage / Partner
Pierre-Alexis TREMBLAY and Mary-Ellen CONNOLLY 6 September 1870, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

He was 42 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