Quirille SAULNIER

(b. 21 September 1789 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Province of Québec, Canada d. 16 November 1872 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Quirille SAULNIER was born 21 September 1789 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Province of Québec, Canada

Quirille SAULNIER was the child of Jean-Baptiste SAULNIER and Marie-Thérèse GUAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre SAULNIER and Marie-Josephte LAVOIE (maternal) Noel GUAY (CASTONGUAY) and Marie-Josephte TREMBLAY

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

Quirille married Alexis SIMARD 13 October 1812 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Alexis SIMARD was born 22 July 1785 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Alexis died 7 April 1862 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Alexis was the child of Joseph-Godefroy SIMARD and Felicite CÔTÉ.

Quirille SAULNIER died 16 November 1872 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.

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Quirille SAULNIER married

Alexis SIMARD-- Date: 13 October 1812 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Alexis SIMARD was the child of Joseph-Godefroy SIMARD and Felicite CÔTÉ

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Children of Alexis SIMARD and Quirille SAULNIER:

Edouard SIMARD (b.3 April 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 20 April 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East )
m. Marie-Celeste GAGNON 3 August 1852 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Hippolyte SIMARD (b.12 November 1828, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 19 July 1916, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )
m. Reine PICARD dite DESTROISMAISONS 21 February 1854 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

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1789 Birth
21 September 1789
Baie-Saint-Paul, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1812 Marriage / Partner
Quirille SAULNIER and Alexis SIMARD 13 October 1812, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 23 years old.

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)

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

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Edouard SIMARD was born 3 April 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Quirille was 37 years old.

1828 Birth of Child
Hippolyte SIMARD was born 12 November 1828, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Quirille was 39 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

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.

1852 Marriage of Child
Edouard SIMARD married 3 August 1852, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada to Marie-Celeste GAGNON

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

1854 Marriage of Child
Hippolyte SIMARD married 21 February 1854, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada to Reine PICARD dite DESTROISMAISONS

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

1862 Death of Spouse/Partner
Alexis SIMARD died 7 April 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

1862 Death of Child
Edouard SIMARD died 20 April 1862, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Quirille was 72 years old.

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.