Jean-Baptiste SIMARD

(b. 2 April 1798 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 29 July 1875 , Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste SIMARD was born 2 April 1798 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste SIMARD was the child of Jean-Baptiste SIMARD and Suzanne LAVOIE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste-Noel SIMARD and Elisabeth BRADETTE dite LAFORGE (PRADET) (maternal) Basile LAVOIE and Marie MARTINEAU

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jean-Baptiste married Olive BOUCHARD 19 November 1821 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Olive BOUCHARD was born 3 June 1793 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière). Olive died 24 April 1855 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière). Olive was the child of Jean-Noel BOUCHARD and Madeleine SIMARD.

Jean-Baptiste SIMARD died 29 July 1875 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
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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
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Family and Children of Jean-Baptiste SIMARD

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Jean-Baptiste SIMARD married

Olive BOUCHARD-- Date: 19 November 1821 Place: Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada
Olive BOUCHARD was the child of Jean-Noel BOUCHARD and Madeleine SIMARD

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Children of Jean-Baptiste SIMARD and Olive BOUCHARD:

Adeline SIMARD (b.19 July 1832, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada d. 13 May 1926, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada )
m. Lucien TREMBLAY 27 September 1853 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

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1798 Birth
2 April 1798
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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

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

1821 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste SIMARD and Olive BOUCHARD 19 November 1821, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

He was 23 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

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

1832 Birth of Child
Adeline SIMARD was born 19 July 1832, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

Jean-Baptiste was 34 years old.

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.

1853 Marriage of Child
Adeline SIMARD married 27 September 1853, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière) to Lucien TREMBLAY

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

1855 Death of Spouse/Partner
Olive BOUCHARD died 24 April 1855, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

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.