Hubert ST-GELAIS

(b. 12 November 1799 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 23 June 1880 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Hubert ST-GELAIS was born 12 November 1799 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Hubert ST-GELAIS was the child of Marc BRADETTE dit SINGELAIS and Dorothee BELLEY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François BRADETTE dit SINGELAIS and Suzanne DUCHESNE dite LAPIERRE (maternal) René BELLEY and Thérèse TREMBLAY

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

Hubert married Quirille TREMBLAY 24 October 1826 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Quirille TREMBLAY was born 21 June 1807 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Quirille was the child of Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY and Marie OTIS dite LANGLAIS.

Hubert ST-GELAIS died 23 June 1880 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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Hubert ST-GELAIS married

Quirille TREMBLAY-- Date: 24 October 1826 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Quirille TREMBLAY was the child of Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY and Marie OTIS dite LANGLAIS

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Children of Hubert ST-GELAIS and Quirille TREMBLAY:

Calixte ST-GELAIS (b.31 January 1833, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. 27 February 1910, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )
m. Ovide TREMBLAY 8 September 1857 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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1799 Birth
12 November 1799
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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

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)

1826 Marriage / Partner
Hubert ST-GELAIS and Quirille TREMBLAY 24 October 1826, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 26 years old.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1833 Birth of Child
Calixte ST-GELAIS was born 31 January 1833, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Hubert was 33 years old.

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 of Child
Calixte ST-GELAIS married 8 September 1857, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Ovide TREMBLAY

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.