Modeste TREMBLAY

(b. 18 July 1818 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 11 February 1898 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Modeste TREMBLAY was born 18 July 1818 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Modeste TREMBLAY was the child of François TREMBLAY and Angele BOUCHARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) François-Xavier TREMBLAY and Marie-Madeleine DURETTE (maternal) Jacques BOUCHARD and Modeste FORTIN

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Modeste married Lucien TREMBLAY 27 October 1840 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Lucien TREMBLAY was born 4 March 1819 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Lucien died 28 June 1896 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Lucien was the child of Antoine TREMBLAY and Basilisse LECLERC.

Modeste TREMBLAY died 11 February 1898 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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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
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Family and Children of Modeste TREMBLAY

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Modeste TREMBLAY married

Lucien TREMBLAY-- Date: 27 October 1840 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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Lucien TREMBLAY was the child of Antoine TREMBLAY and Basilisse LECLERC

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Children of Lucien TREMBLAY and Modeste TREMBLAY:

Marie-Laure TREMBLAY (b.10 December 1841, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. , )

Gedeon TREMBLAY (b.14 May 1844, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 1 March 1939, Kénogami, Chicoutimi, Canada)
m. Marie-Anne-Hermeline MARTEL 3 November 1874 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Charles TREMBLAY (b.9 December 1854, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. , )

Adele TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1855, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Arthur TREMBLAY (b.17 April 1856, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. , )

Anna TREMBLAY (b.11 September 1859, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 26 December 1899, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )
m. Elzear TREMBLAY 27 September 1887 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1818 Birth
18 July 1818
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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 - 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

1840 Marriage / Partner
Modeste TREMBLAY and Lucien TREMBLAY 27 October 1840, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

She was 22 years old.

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1841 Birth of Child
Marie-Laure TREMBLAY was born 10 December 1841, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Modeste was 23 years old.

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
Gedeon TREMBLAY was born 14 May 1844, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Modeste was 25 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.

1854 Birth of Child
Charles TREMBLAY was born 9 December 1854, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Modeste was 36 years old.

1856 Birth of Child
Arthur TREMBLAY was born 17 April 1856, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Modeste was 37 years old.

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

1859 Birth of Child
Anna TREMBLAY was born 11 September 1859, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Modeste was 41 years old.

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

1874 Marriage of Child
Gedeon TREMBLAY married 3 November 1874, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Marie-Anne-Hermeline MARTEL

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
Anna TREMBLAY married 27 September 1887, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Elzear TREMBLAY

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