Gertrude GIRARD

Born

30 March 1800 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

30 April 1866 , Sainte-Agnès, Canada East

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Nicolas-Francois GIRARD Procule MERCIER

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Gertrude GIRARD was born 30 March 1800 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Gertrude GIRARD was the child of Nicolas-Francois GIRARD and Procule MERCIER

and the grandchild of: (paternal) Nicolas GIRARD and Marie-Françoise DESBIENS (maternal) Joseph MERCIER and Marie-Josephte LEVRON

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Gertrude married Thomas IMBEAULT 25 November 1817 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Thomas IMBEAULT was born 4 March 1795 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Thomas was the child of François IMBEAULT dit LAGRANGE and Geneviève DESBIENS.

Gertrude GIRARD died 30 April 1866 in Sainte-Agnès, Canada East .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Gertrude GIRARD married

Thomas IMBEAULT-- Date: 25 November 1817 Place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Thomas IMBEAULT was the child of François IMBEAULT dit LAGRANGE and Geneviève DESBIENS

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Children of Thomas IMBEAULT and Gertrude GIRARD

Mathilde IMBEAULT (b.15 December 1825, La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. 9 April 1904, Grosses-Roches, Canada)
m. Roch TREMBLAY 10 November 1846 in La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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1800 Birth
30 March 1800
La Malbaie, Lower Canada

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Gertrude GIRARD and Thomas IMBEAULT 25 November 1817, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 17 years old.

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)

1825 Birth of Child
Mathilde IMBEAULT was born 15 December 1825, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Gertrude was 25 years old.

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)

1846 Marriage of Child
Mathilde IMBEAULT married 10 November 1846, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Roch TREMBLAY

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)