Mamert (Omer) SIMARD

(b. 15 May 1816 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 24 May 1877 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Mamert (Omer) SIMARD was born 15 May 1816 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Mamert (Omer) SIMARD was the child of Joseph SIMARD and Marie-Theophile FILION and the grandchild of: (paternal) François SIMARD and Marie-Charlotte TREMBLAY (maternal) Zacharie FILION and Suzanne GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE

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

Mamert (Omer) married Christine TREMBLAY 27 November 1838 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Christine TREMBLAY was born abt. 1817 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Christine died 8 January 1894 in Chambord, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada. Christine was the child of Jacques TREMBLAY and Quirille GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE.

Mamert (Omer) SIMARD died 24 May 1877 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
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Family and Children of Mamert (Omer) SIMARD

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Mamert (Omer) SIMARD married

Christine TREMBLAY-- Date: 27 November 1838 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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Christine TREMBLAY was the child of Jacques TREMBLAY and Quirille GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE

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Children of Mamert (Omer) SIMARD and Christine TREMBLAY:

Marie-Celina SIMARD (b.16 July 1842, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. , )
m. Michel TREMBLAY 28 April 1874 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Cyrille-Seraphine SIMARD (b.22 September 1854, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 29 June 1907, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )
m. Michel TREMBLAY 11 December 1899 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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1816 Birth
15 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

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
Mamert (Omer) SIMARD and Christine TREMBLAY 27 November 1838, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 22 years old.

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

1842 Birth of Child
Marie-Celina SIMARD was born 16 July 1842, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Mamert (Omer) was 26 years old.

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.

1854 Birth of Child
Cyrille-Seraphine SIMARD was born 22 September 1854, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Mamert (Omer) was 38 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

1874 Marriage of Child
Marie-Celina SIMARD married 28 April 1874, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul) to Michel TREMBLAY

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.