Elizabeth SIMARD

(b. 7 February 1806 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 12 March 1878 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Elizabeth SIMARD was born 7 February 1806 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Elizabeth SIMARD was the child of François-Paul SIMARD and Marie-Antoinette-Ursule GIRARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) François SIMARD and Marie-Madeleine SIMARD (maternal) Pierre-Louis GIRARD and Emerentienne BOUCHARD

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

Elizabeth married Alexis GUAY 14 November 1826 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Alexis GUAY was born 23 November 1803 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Alexis was the child of Yves-Michel GUAY and Constance-Ursule-Dorothee GAGNON.

Elizabeth SIMARD died 12 March 1878 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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Family and Children of Elizabeth SIMARD

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Elizabeth SIMARD married

Alexis GUAY-- Date: 14 November 1826 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Alexis GUAY was the child of Yves-Michel GUAY and Constance-Ursule-Dorothee GAGNON

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Children of Alexis GUAY and Elizabeth SIMARD:

Celina GUAY (b.17 August 1846, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 10 July 1883, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )
m. Guillaume (William) TREMBLAY 31 August 1869 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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1806 Birth
7 February 1806
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)

1826 Marriage / Partner
Elizabeth SIMARD and Alexis GUAY 14 November 1826, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 20 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

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)

1846 Birth of Child
Celina GUAY was born 17 August 1846, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Elizabeth was 40 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.

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)

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.

1869 Marriage of Child
Celina GUAY married 31 August 1869, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Guillaume (William) TREMBLAY

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.