Marie-Celina POTVIN

(b. 29 May 1840 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 3 June 1884 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Celina POTVIN was born 29 May 1840 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Marie-Celina POTVIN was the child of Thomas POTVIN and Emilie GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Marie POITEVIN dit POTVIN and Agnes BOUCHARD (maternal) Antoine GONTHIER and Catherine TREMBLAY

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

Marie-Celina married François-Xavier TREMBLAY 19 July 1859 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
François-Xavier TREMBLAY was born 21 November 1836 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). François-Xavier died 1 June 1921 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). François-Xavier was the child of Euloge TREMBLAY and Suzanne BOIVIN.

Marie-Celina POTVIN died 3 June 1884 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
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Marie-Celina POTVIN married

François-Xavier TREMBLAY-- Date: 19 July 1859 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East

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François-Xavier TREMBLAY was the child of Euloge TREMBLAY and Suzanne BOIVIN

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Children of François-Xavier TREMBLAY and Marie-Celina POTVIN:

Marie TREMBLAY (b.2 May 1860, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 10 April 1937, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )
m. Georges TREMBLAY 16 February 1881 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie-Louise TREMBLAY (b.12 February 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )

Emilie TREMBLAY (b.12 April 1864, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )

Thomas TREMBLAY (b.22 December 1868, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada d. 25 September 1948, St-Grégoire-de-Montmorency, Quebec, Canada)

Joseph TREMBLAY (b.19 April 1871, , Québec Province, Canada d. 29 April 1954, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

Emma TREMBLAY (b.25 January 1875, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada d. , )

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1840 Birth
29 May 1840
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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

1859 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Celina POTVIN and François-Xavier TREMBLAY 19 July 1859, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 19 years old.

1860 Birth of Child
Marie TREMBLAY was born 2 May 1860, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie-Celina was 19 years old.

1862 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise TREMBLAY was born 12 February 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie-Celina was 21 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1864 Birth of Child
Emilie TREMBLAY was born 12 April 1864, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie-Celina was 23 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.

1868 Birth of Child
Thomas TREMBLAY was born 22 December 1868, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie-Celina was 28 years old.

1871 Birth of Child
Joseph TREMBLAY was born 19 April 1871, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Marie-Celina was 30 years old.

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

1875 Birth of Child
Emma TREMBLAY was born 25 January 1875, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie-Celina was 34 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)

1881 Marriage of Child
Marie TREMBLAY married 16 February 1881, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Georges TREMBLAY