Modeste TREMBLAY

(b. 27 December 1798 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 6 June 1872 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Modeste TREMBLAY was born 27 December 1798 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Modeste TREMBLAY was the child of Jacques TREMBLAY and Modeste LAVOIE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis-Marie TREMBLAY and Marie-Anne-Victoire GIRARD (maternal) Jean-Baptiste LAVOIE and Angélique FORTIN

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Modeste married Pierre DUFOUR 6 May 1817 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Pierre DUFOUR was born 22 October 1784 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière). Pierre died 12 May 1862 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Pierre was the child of Jean-Baptiste DUFOUR and Genevieve BOUCHARD.

Modeste TREMBLAY died 6 June 1872 in Baie-Saint-Paul, 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
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Family and Children of Modeste TREMBLAY

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Modeste TREMBLAY married

Pierre DUFOUR-- Date: 6 May 1817 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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Pierre DUFOUR was the child of Jean-Baptiste DUFOUR and Genevieve BOUCHARD

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Children of Pierre DUFOUR and Modeste TREMBLAY:

Alderic DUFOUR (b.abt. 1820, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Sabine DUFOUR (b.abt. 1822, , Québec Province, Canada d. 6 January 1852, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East )

Israel DUFOUR (b.19 January 1824, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 31 July 1897, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

Ovide DUFOUR (b.10 February 1831, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 9 November 1895, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

Auguste-Zoel DUFOUR (b.abt. 1835, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1798 Birth
27 December 1798
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Modeste TREMBLAY and Pierre DUFOUR 6 May 1817, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 18 years old.

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)

1824 Birth of Child
Israel DUFOUR was born 19 January 1824, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Modeste was 25 years old.

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

1831 Birth of Child
Ovide DUFOUR was born 10 February 1831, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Modeste was 32 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.

1852 Death of Child
Sabine DUFOUR died 6 January 1852, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Modeste was 53 years old.

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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Pierre DUFOUR died 12 May 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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.