Prosper TREMBLAY

Born

15 January 1843 , Les Éboulements, Canada East

Died

22 March 1895 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Prosper TREMBLAY Marie BOUCHARD

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Born: 15 January 1843 in Les Éboulements, Canada East

Father: Prosper TREMBLAY

Mother: Marie BOUCHARD

Paternal grandparents: Michel-Abraham TREMBLAY , Madeleine BOIVIN

Maternal grandparents: Daniel BOUCHARD , Euphrosine BOUCHARD

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Prosper married Marie-Josephine BERGERON 2 February 1869 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Josephine BERGERON was born 3 December 1848 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . Marie-Josephine was the child of Jovite BERGERON and Domithilde GAGNON.

Prosper TREMBLAY died 22 March 1895 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Marie-Josephine BERGERON
Marriage date: 2 February 1869
Marriage place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Marie-Josephine BERGERON was the child of Jovite BERGERON and Domithilde GAGNON

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Children of Prosper TREMBLAY and Marie-Josephine BERGERON

Alma TREMBLAY

Born: 3 September 1885, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada
Died: 14 December 1926, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Oscar TREMBLAY 17 February 1903 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1843
15 January 1843
Les Éboulements, Canada East

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.

1869 Marriage / Partner
Prosper TREMBLAY and Marie-Josephine BERGERON 2 February 1869, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 26 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)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 Birth of Child
Alma TREMBLAY was born 3 September 1885, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Prosper was 42 years old.

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

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada