Sophie SIMARD

Born

15 August 1790 , La Malbaie, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

3 September 1878 , La Malbaie, Québec, Canada

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Alexis SIMARD Suzanne PERRON

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Born: 15 August 1790 in La Malbaie, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Alexis SIMARD

Mother: Suzanne PERRON

Paternal grandparents: Ange SIMARD , Marie-Roch TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents: Antoine PERRON , Suzanne DESBIENS

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Sophie married Jerome GIRARD 1 September 1812 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jerome GIRARD was born abt. 1790 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Jerome was the child of Agapit GIRARD and Rose MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT).

Sophie SIMARD died 3 September 1878 in La Malbaie, 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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Sophie SIMARD married

Jerome GIRARD
Marriage date: 1 September 1812
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Jerome GIRARD was the child of Agapit GIRARD and Rose MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT)

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Children of Jerome GIRARD and Sophie SIMARD

Priscille GIRARD

Born: 22 June 1814, La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Died: 31 December 1896, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Married: Louis-Theophile CHOUINARD 15 April 1834 Place: La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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Birth — 1790
15 August 1790
La Malbaie, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1812 Marriage / Partner
Sophie SIMARD and Jerome GIRARD 1 September 1812, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 22 years old.

1814 Birth of Child
Priscille GIRARD was born 22 June 1814, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Sophie was 23 years old.

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

1834 Marriage of Child
Priscille GIRARD married 15 April 1834, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic) to Louis-Theophile CHOUINARD

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.

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.