Henri TREMBLAY

(b. 23 August 1837 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 23 November 1906 , Chambord, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )

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Henri TREMBLAY was born 23 August 1837 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Henri TREMBLAY was the child of Eucher TREMBLAY and Modeste POITEVIN (POTVIN) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Augustin TREMBLAY and Josephe-Madeleine ALLARD (maternal) Hubert POTVIN and Marie-Sylvie GRENON

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Henri married Heloise GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE 8 October 1872 in Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada . Heloise GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE was born 13 June 1853 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Heloise died 31 July 1926 in La Motte, Canada. Heloise was the child of Elie GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Sara FORTIN.

Henri TREMBLAY died 23 November 1906 in Chambord, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada.
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Heloise GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE-- Date: 8 October 1872 Place: Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
Heloise GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE was the child of Elie GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Sara FORTIN

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1837 Birth
23 August 1837
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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.

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.

1872 Marriage / Partner
Henri TREMBLAY and Heloise GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE 8 October 1872, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jerome)

He was 35 years old.

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

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.

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