Dominique SIMARD

(b. 17 December 1806 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. 28 October 1868 , Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada )

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Dominique SIMARD was born 17 December 1806 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Dominique SIMARD was the child of François SIMARD and Marie-Emerentienne BOULIANNE and the grandchild of: (paternal) François SIMARD dit LOMBRETTE and Marie LAVOIE (maternal) Louis-Marie BOULIANNE dit LE SUISSE and Marie-Anne TREMBLAY

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

Dominique married Madeleine BOUDREAU 26 January 1836 in Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Madeleine BOUDREAU was born 12 July 1818 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Madeleine died 21 January 1892 in Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix). Madeleine was the child of Jean BOUDREAU and Catherine SIMARD.

Dominique SIMARD died 28 October 1868 in Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Dominique SIMARD was a cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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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 Dominique SIMARD

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Dominique SIMARD married

Madeleine BOUDREAU-- Date: 26 January 1836 Place: Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada

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Madeleine BOUDREAU was the child of Jean BOUDREAU and Catherine SIMARD

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Children of Dominique SIMARD and Madeleine BOUDREAU:

Marie SIMARD (b.abt. 1855, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Néré-Irénée-Henri TREMBLAY 6 April 1875 in Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

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1806 Birth
17 December 1806
La Malbaie, 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 Marriage / Partner
Dominique SIMARD and Madeleine BOUDREAU 26 January 1836, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

He was 29 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)

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.