Bernard GAUDREAU

(b. 20 August 1804 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 16 November 1879 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )

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Bernard GAUDREAU was born 20 August 1804 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Bernard GAUDREAU was the child of Alexis GAUDREAU and Marie-Luce TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques GAUDREAU and Marguerite-Sophie LAFOREST dite LABRANCHE (maternal) Louis-Roch-Augustin TREMBLAY and Constance-Ursule-Dorothée SIMARD

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

Bernard married Antoinette TREMBLAY 31 January 1825 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Antoinette TREMBLAY was born abt. 1804 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Antoinette was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Marie-Claire TREMBLAY.

Bernard GAUDREAU died 16 November 1879 in Chicoutimi, 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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Family and Children of Bernard GAUDREAU

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Bernard GAUDREAU married

Antoinette TREMBLAY-- Date: 31 January 1825 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Antoinette TREMBLAY was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Marie-Claire TREMBLAY

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Children of Bernard GAUDREAU and Antoinette TREMBLAY:

Adele-Edith GAUDREAU (b.26 September 1827, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 1 November 1899, Laterrière, Québec, Canada)

Olympe GAUDREAU (b.abt. 1833, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Evague GAUDREAU (b.7 January 1838, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. , )

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1804 Birth
20 August 1804
Les Éboulements, 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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Bernard GAUDREAU and Antoinette TREMBLAY 31 January 1825, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 20 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Adele-Edith GAUDREAU was born 26 September 1827, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Bernard was 23 years old.

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

1838 Birth of Child
Evague GAUDREAU was born 7 January 1838, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Bernard was 33 years old.

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.