Gregoire SIMARD

Born

3 April 1812 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

29 April 1889 , La Baie, Québec, Canada

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Born: 3 April 1812 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Parents of Gregoire SIMARD

Father

Lambert SIMARD

Mother

Madeleine GIRARD

Grandparents of Gregoire SIMARD

Paternal grandparents

François-Xavier SIMARD Gertrude-Francoise GIRARD

Maternal grandparents

François GIRARD Madeleine TREMBLAY

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

Gregoire married Basilisse GIRARD 21 February 1832 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Basilisse GIRARD was born 20 January 1813 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . Basilisse died 25 November 1886 in La Baie, Québec, Canada . Basilisse was the child of Elie-Elisee GIRARD and Marie-Thérèse TREMBLAY.

Gregoire SIMARD died 29 April 1889 in La Baie, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Gregoire SIMARD

Gregoire SIMARD married

Basilisse GIRARD
Marriage date: 21 February 1832
Marriage place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada
Basilisse GIRARD was the child of Elie-Elisee GIRARD and Marie-Thérèse TREMBLAY

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Children of Gregoire SIMARD and Basilisse GIRARD

Sophronie (Stephanie) SIMARD

Born: 3 June 1843, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 5 October 1901, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

Married: Maxime TREMBLAY 1 October 1860 Place: La Baie, Canada East

Stanislas SIMARD

Born: 30 November 1849, La Baie, Canada East
Died: 24 October 1928, La Baie, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie TREMBLAY 7 January 1873 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1812
3 April 1812
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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

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 Marriage / Partner
Gregoire SIMARD and Basilisse GIRARD 21 February 1832, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

He was 19 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)

1843 Birth of Child
Sophronie (Stephanie) SIMARD was born 3 June 1843, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Gregoire was 31 years old.

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)

1849 Birth of Child
Stanislas SIMARD was born 30 November 1849, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Gregoire was 37 years old.

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

1860 Marriage of Child
Sophronie (Stephanie) SIMARD married 1 October 1860, La Baie, Canada East to Maxime TREMBLAY

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.

1873 Marriage of Child
Stanislas SIMARD married 7 January 1873, La Baie, Québec, Canada to Marie TREMBLAY

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 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1886 Death of Spouse/Partner
Basilisse GIRARD died 25 November 1886, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

Death — 1889
29 April 1889
La Baie, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 77.

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