Luce GIRARD

(b. 13 January 1831 , Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada d. 31 October 1881 , La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

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Luce GIRARD was born 13 January 1831 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada

Luce GIRARD was the child of Joseph-Marie GIRARD and Agnes TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Augustin GIRARD and Marie-Josephte BOIVIN (maternal) Augustin TREMBLAY and Agnes COTE

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

Luce married Joseph TREMBLAY 5 April 1853 in La Malbaie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 10 children.
Joseph TREMBLAY was born 19 June 1831 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Joseph died 13 July 1917 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Joseph was the child of Dominique TREMBLAY and Marie-Catherine LAVOIE.

Luce GIRARD died 31 October 1881 in La Malbaie, 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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Luce GIRARD married

Joseph TREMBLAY-- Date: 5 April 1853 Place: La Malbaie, Canada East

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Joseph TREMBLAY was the child of Dominique TREMBLAY and Marie-Catherine LAVOIE

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Children of Joseph TREMBLAY and Luce GIRARD:

David TREMBLAY (b.10 December 1853, La Malbaie, Canada East d. 11 December 1853, La Malbaie, Canada East )

Henri TREMBLAY (b.19 September 1855, La Malbaie, Canada East d. 31 January 1943, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

Marie-Adelaide TREMBLAY (b.30 May 1858, La Malbaie, Canada East d. 22 June 1942, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

Charles TREMBLAY (b.13 August 1860, La Malbaie, Canada East d. 13 April 1941, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

Louise-Adelaide TREMBLAY (b.1 May 1863, La Malbaie, Canada East d. 29 December 1881, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

Marie-Felicite-Heloise TREMBLAY (b.1 May 1863, La Malbaie, Canada East d. 2 December 1863, La Malbaie, Canada East )

Felicite TREMBLAY (b.21 May 1866, Chicoutimi, Canada East d. 5 July 1943, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

Julie TREMBLAY (b.1 February 1869, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada d. , )

Fidele TREMBLAY (b.20 May 1872, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada d. 5 December 1872, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

Louise TREMBLAY (b.20 June 1874, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada d. 25 July 1954, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

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1831 Birth
13 January 1831
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.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Luce GIRARD and Joseph TREMBLAY 5 April 1853, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 22 years old.

1853 Birth of Child
David TREMBLAY was born 10 December 1853, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 22 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1855 Birth of Child
Henri TREMBLAY was born 19 September 1855, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 24 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-Adelaide TREMBLAY was born 30 May 1858, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 27 years old.

1860 Birth of Child
Charles TREMBLAY was born 13 August 1860, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 29 years old.

1863 Birth of Child
Louise-Adelaide TREMBLAY was born 1 May 1863, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 32 years old.

1863 Birth of Child
Marie-Felicite-Heloise TREMBLAY was born 1 May 1863, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 32 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
Felicite TREMBLAY was born 21 May 1866, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

Luce was 35 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.

1869 Birth of Child
Julie TREMBLAY was born 1 February 1869, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 38 years old.

1872 Birth of Child
Fidele TREMBLAY was born 20 May 1872, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Luce was 41 years old.

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

1874 Birth of Child
Louise TREMBLAY was born 20 June 1874, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Luce was 43 years old.

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)