Onesime TREMBLAY

(b. 25 October 1835 , Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada d. 28 September 1902 , St-Placide, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada )

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Onesime TREMBLAY was born 25 October 1835 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada

Onesime TREMBLAY was the child of Etienne TREMBLAY and Catherine BOIVIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis TREMBLAY and Suzanne COTE (maternal) Augustin BOIVIN and Gertrude LECLERC

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

Onesime married Louise TREMBLAY 21 October 1856 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 13 children.
Louise TREMBLAY was born abt. 1836 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Louise died 19 January 1909 in St-Placide, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada. Louise was the child of Magloire TREMBLAY and Henriette SIMARD.

Onesime TREMBLAY died 28 September 1902 in St-Placide, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada.
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Family and Children of Onesime TREMBLAY

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Onesime TREMBLAY married

Louise TREMBLAY-- Date: 21 October 1856 Place: Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Canada East
Louise TREMBLAY was the child of Magloire TREMBLAY and Henriette SIMARD

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Children of Onesime TREMBLAY and Louise TREMBLAY:

Joseph TREMBLAY (b.3 November 1856, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , St-Placide, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada)

Marie-Elodie TREMBLAY (b.24 May 1858, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )

Sophie TREMBLAY (b.8 January 1860, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )

Marie-Lydie TREMBLAY (b.9 August 1861, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )

Oscar TREMBLAY (b.9 September 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 2 March 1941, St-Placide, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada)

Napoleon TREMBLAY (b.16 February 1864, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Canada East d. , )

Georges-Treffle TREMBLAY (b.23 May 1865, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )

Georgianna TREMBLAY (b.25 December 1866, , Québec Province, Canada d. 19 February 1951, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )

Luc TREMBLAY (b.19 September 1871, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada d. , )

Alexina TREMBLAY (b.19 March 1873, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada d. 3 March 1948, Montréal, Québec, Canada )

Marie-Anna TREMBLAY (b.15 September 1874, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada d. , )

Virginie TREMBLAY (b.20 June 1876, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada d. , )

Alice TREMBLAY (b.18 June 1880, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada d. , )

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1835 Birth
25 October 1835
Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, 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.

1856 Marriage / Partner
Onesime TREMBLAY and Louise TREMBLAY 21 October 1856, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

He was 21 years old.

1856 Birth of Child
Joseph TREMBLAY was born 3 November 1856, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Onesime was 21 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

1858 Birth of Child
Marie-Elodie TREMBLAY was born 24 May 1858, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Onesime was 22 years old.

1860 Birth of Child
Sophie TREMBLAY was born 8 January 1860, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Onesime was 24 years old.

1861 Birth of Child
Marie-Lydie TREMBLAY was born 9 August 1861, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Onesime was 25 years old.

1862 Birth of Child
Oscar TREMBLAY was born 9 September 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Onesime was 26 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1864 Birth of Child
Napoleon TREMBLAY was born 16 February 1864, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

Onesime was 28 years old.

1865 Birth of Child
Georges-Treffle TREMBLAY was born 23 May 1865, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Onesime was 29 years old.

1866 Birth of Child
Georgianna TREMBLAY was born 25 December 1866, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Onesime was 31 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.

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.

1871 Birth of Child
Luc TREMBLAY was born 19 September 1871, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

Onesime was 35 years old.

1873 Birth of Child
Alexina TREMBLAY was born 19 March 1873, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

Onesime was 37 years old.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Birth of Child
Marie-Anna TREMBLAY was born 15 September 1874, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

Onesime was 38 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1876 Birth of Child
Virginie TREMBLAY was born 20 June 1876, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

Onesime 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)

1880 Birth of Child
Alice TREMBLAY was born 18 June 1880, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

Onesime was 44 years old.

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

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)