Marie-Josephte SIMARD

(b. 20 May 1820 , Québec Province, Canada d. 6 August 1880 , Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Josephte SIMARD was born 20 May 1820 in Québec Province, Canada

Marie-Josephte SIMARD was the child of Francois SIMARD and Marie-Angele GUAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis-Isaac-Absalon SIMARD and Josette FORTIN (maternal) Francois-Sauveur GUAY and Dorothee-Victoire GRENON

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

Marie-Josephte married Joseph PILOTE 21 February 1843 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph PILOTE was born abt. 1818 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Joseph died 27 October 1906 in Saint-Félicien, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (St-Felicien). Joseph was the child of Jean PILOTE and Modeste BOIVIN.

Marie-Josephte SIMARD died 6 August 1880 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, 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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Marie-Josephte SIMARD married

Joseph PILOTE-- Date: 21 February 1843 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Joseph PILOTE was the child of Jean PILOTE and Modeste BOIVIN

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Children of Joseph PILOTE and Marie-Josephte SIMARD:

Luce PILOTE (b.August 1855, , Québec Province, Canada d. 21 February 1940, St-Stanislas, Roberval, Quebec, Canada)
m. Charles TREMBLAY 21 January 1878 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre)

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1820 Birth
20 May 1820
Québec Province, Canada

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

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)

1843 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Josephte SIMARD and Joseph PILOTE 21 February 1843, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 22 years old.

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.

1855 Birth of Child
Luce PILOTE was born August 1855, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Marie-Josephte was 35 years old.

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.

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 Marriage of Child
Luce PILOTE married 21 January 1878, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre) to Charles TREMBLAY

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)