Zephirin GIROUARD

(b. 5 October 1837 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 20 October 1904 , Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Zephirin GIROUARD was born 5 October 1837 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Zephirin GIROUARD was the child of François-Alexandre GIROUARD and Marie-Pelagie GODBOUT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste GIROUARD and Agathe ALLAIRE (maternal) Nicolas GODBOUT and Marie-Archange CHARTIER

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Zephirin married Adeline ARCHAMBAULT 25 September 1877 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada . Adeline ARCHAMBAULT was born 8 July 1834 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Adeline died 25 August 1909 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Adeline was the child of Toussaint ARCHAMBAULT and Monique LANGEVIN.

Zephirin GIROUARD died 20 October 1904 in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, 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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Adeline ARCHAMBAULT-- Date: 25 September 1877 Place: Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada
Adeline ARCHAMBAULT was the child of Toussaint ARCHAMBAULT and Monique LANGEVIN

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1837 Birth
5 October 1837
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

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.

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 Marriage / Partner
Zephirin GIROUARD and Adeline ARCHAMBAULT 25 September 1877, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

He was 40 years old.

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.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada