Norbert LAVOIE

(b. 3 May 1816 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 26 April 1885 , Rivière-à-l'Ours, Quebec, Canada )

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Norbert LAVOIE was born 3 May 1816 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Norbert LAVOIE was the child of Louis LAVOIE and Geneviève MENARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste LAVOIE and Angélique FORTIN (maternal) Jean-Baptiste MENARD and Pelagie SIMARD

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

Norbert married Adelaide TREMBLAY 17 November 1835 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Adelaide TREMBLAY was born 2 September 1818 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Adelaide died 27 December 1884 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay). Adelaide was the child of Etienne TREMBLAY and Celeste TREMBLAY.

Norbert LAVOIE died 26 April 1885 in Rivière-à-l'Ours, Quebec, 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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Norbert LAVOIE married

Adelaide TREMBLAY-- Date: 17 November 1835 Place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada

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Adelaide TREMBLAY was the child of Etienne TREMBLAY and Celeste TREMBLAY

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Children of Norbert LAVOIE and Adelaide TREMBLAY:

Celeste LAVOIE (b.8 September 1836, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. 7 September 1870, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )
m. Olivier PERRON 20 February 1854 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Henriette LAVOIE (b.27 January 1845, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East d. , )
m. Cleophe TREMBLAY 11 January 1864 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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1816 Birth
3 May 1816
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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)

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Marriage / Partner
Norbert LAVOIE and Adelaide TREMBLAY 17 November 1835, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

He was 19 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Birth of Child
Celeste LAVOIE was born 8 September 1836, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Norbert was 20 years old.

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)

1845 Birth of Child
Henriette LAVOIE was born 27 January 1845, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Norbert was 28 years old.

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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Celeste LAVOIE married 20 February 1854, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Olivier PERRON

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)

1864 Marriage of Child
Henriette LAVOIE married 11 January 1864, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Cleophe TREMBLAY

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.

1870 Death of Child
Celeste LAVOIE died 7 September 1870, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre)

Norbert was 54 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)

1884 Death of Spouse/Partner
Adelaide TREMBLAY died 27 December 1884, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

1885 Death
26 April 1885
Rivière-à-l'Ours, Quebec, Canada

He died at the age of 69.

Added: 9/16/2024 11:36:19 AM - Updated: 5/16/2025 1:09:51 PM