Marie-Obeline SIMARD

(b. 17 June 1832 , Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada d. 18 October 1868 , Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Obeline SIMARD was born 17 June 1832 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Lower Canada

Marie-Obeline SIMARD was the child of Louis-Vital SIMARD and Marie-Anne BOUCHARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Claude-Jean-Francois SIMARD and Euphronsine AMIOT dite VILLENEUVE (maternal) Etienne BOUCHARD and Genevieve SIMARD

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Marie-Obeline married Mars TREMBLAY 28 April 1857 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Canada East . Mars TREMBLAY was born 19 November 1832 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. Mars was the child of Eloi TREMBLAY and Marguerite COTE.

Marie-Obeline SIMARD died 18 October 1868 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, 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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Mars TREMBLAY-- Date: 28 April 1857 Place: Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Canada East
Mars TREMBLAY was the child of Eloi TREMBLAY and Marguerite COTE

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1832 Birth
17 June 1832
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.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1857 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Obeline SIMARD and Mars TREMBLAY 28 April 1857, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière)

She was 24 years old.

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.