Joseph SIMARD

(b. 14 October 1832 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 8 December 1868 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph SIMARD was born 14 October 1832 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Joseph SIMARD was the child of Joseph SIMARD and Josephte FORTIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph SIMARD dit LOMBRETTE and Marie SIMARD (maternal) Michel FORTIN and Agnès SIMARD

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

Joseph married Olive SIMARD 21 January 1851 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Olive SIMARD was born 20 May 1828 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Olive died 8 January 1868 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Olive was the child of Joseph-Marie SIMARD and Marguerite FORTIN.

Joseph SIMARD died 8 December 1868 in Baie-Saint-Paul, 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
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Family and Children of Joseph SIMARD

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Joseph SIMARD married

Olive SIMARD-- Date: 21 January 1851 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Olive SIMARD was the child of Joseph-Marie SIMARD and Marguerite FORTIN

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Children of Joseph SIMARD and Olive SIMARD:

Charles SIMARD (b.18 April 1851, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )
m. Claire TREMBLAY 13 February 1882 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

Olympe SIMARD (b.20 March 1858, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. abt. 1937, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Edouard TREMBLAY 4 March 1878 in Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec, Canada (St-Jérôme de Metabetchouan)

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1832 Birth
14 October 1832
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Joseph SIMARD and Olive SIMARD 21 January 1851, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 18 years old.

1851 Birth of Child
Charles SIMARD was born 18 April 1851, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Joseph was 18 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 Birth of Child
Olympe SIMARD was born 20 March 1858, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Joseph was 25 years old.

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.