Simon RHEAUME

Born

17 July 1806 , Château-Richer, Lower Canada

Died

23 July 1897 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Charles RHEAUME Genevieve LEFRANCOIS

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Born: 17 July 1806 in Château-Richer, Lower Canada

Father: Charles RHEAUME

Mother: Genevieve LEFRANCOIS

Paternal grandparents: Etienne RHÉAUME , Marie-Louise CLOUTIER

Maternal grandparents: Prisque LEFRANCOIS , Genevieve TREPANIER

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Simon married Flamine RHEAUME 10 January 1837 in Château-Richer, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Flamine RHEAUME was born 24 May 1817 in Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer). Flamine died 3 March 1888 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Flamine was the child of Alexis RHEAUME and Veronique TRUDEL.

Simon RHEAUME died 23 July 1897 in Les Éboulements, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Flamine RHEAUME
Marriage date: 10 January 1837
Marriage place: Château-Richer, Lower Canada

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Flamine RHEAUME was the child of Alexis RHEAUME and Veronique TRUDEL

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Children of Simon RHEAUME and Flamine RHEAUME

Marie RHEAUME

Born: 21 March 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: 18 July 1919, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Married: François-Xavier TREMBLAY 19 July 1887 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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Birth — 1806
17 July 1806
Château-Richer, 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

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 Marriage / Partner
Simon RHEAUME and Flamine RHEAUME 10 January 1837, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)

He was 30 years old.

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)

1844 Birth of Child
Marie RHEAUME was born 21 March 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Simon was 37 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)

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.

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 - 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)

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

1887 Marriage of Child
Marie RHEAUME married 19 July 1887, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to François-Xavier TREMBLAY