Guillaume GIRARD

Born

14 January 1833 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

20 December 1897 , St-Cyriac, Quebec, Canada

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Joseph GIRARD Geneviève GAUTHIER

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Born: 14 January 1833 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph GIRARD

Mother: Geneviève GAUTHIER

Paternal grandparents: Henri GIRARD , Anne AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Maternal grandparents: Abraham-Constantin GONTHIER , Geneviève BOUCHER

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Guillaume married Elisabeth TREMBLAY 5 May 1862 in Laterrière, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elisabeth TREMBLAY was born 9 June 1838 in Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix). Elisabeth was the child of Pierre TREMBLAY and Sylvie PERRON.

Guillaume GIRARD died 20 December 1897 in St-Cyriac, Quebec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Elisabeth TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 5 May 1862
Marriage place: Laterrière, Canada East
Elisabeth TREMBLAY was the child of Pierre TREMBLAY and Sylvie PERRON

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Children of Guillaume GIRARD and Elisabeth TREMBLAY

Marie GIRARD

Born: 26 January 1865, Laterrière, Canada East
Died: 26 March 1946, Labrecque, Lac-St-Jean, Quebec, Canada

Married: Clet TREMBLAY 24 November 1892

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Birth — 1833
14 January 1833
Les Éboulements, 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)

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

1862 Marriage / Partner
Guillaume GIRARD and Elisabeth TREMBLAY 5 May 1862, Laterrière, Québec, Canada

He was 29 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Birth of Child
Marie GIRARD was born 26 January 1865, Laterrière, Québec, Canada

Guillaume was 32 years old.

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.