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flag male ancestor  Bernard-Modeste  DUMONT

Born
Died
20 May 1904 St-Maurice, Canada
Bernard-Modeste  married  Julie VERRET 11 August 1840 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada . 
Julie VERRET  was born 19 April 1818 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada .  Julie died 7 July 1903 in St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada.  Julie was the child of François VERRET and Angélique MAILLOT .

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Bernard-Modeste  married  Julie VERRET 11 August 1840 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada .  Julie VERRET  was born 19 April 1818 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada .  Julie died 7 July 1903 in St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada.  Julie was the child of François VERRET and Angélique MAILLOT.




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WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

Recorded occupation: Cultivateur

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer
Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Bernard-Modeste DUMONT

Bernard-Modeste DUMONT married flag female ancestor Julie VERRET
Marriage date: 11 August 1840
Marriage place: Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada
Julie VERRET was the child of François VERRET and Angélique MAILLOT



Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Bernard-Modeste DUMONT and Julie VERRET

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760
Canada, New France
1760–1763
Canada
1763–1791
Province of Québec
1791–1867
Lower Canada
1867–present
Québec, Canada

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.


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BirthBirth — 1819
20 August 1819
Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada
Kings and Queens1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England
Kings and Queens1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England
Kings and Queens1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England
marriage1840 Marriage / Partner
Bernard-Modeste DUMONT and Julie VERRET 11 August 1840, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly)

He was 20 years old.
News1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
News1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.
News1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.
News1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.
News1867 - 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.
Prime Minister of Canada1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
News1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)
News1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
Prime Minister of Canada1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Kings and Queens1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England
1903 Death of Spouse/Partner
Julie VERRET died 7 July 1903, St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada
DeathDeath — 1904
20 May 1904
St-Maurice, Canada
He died at the age of 84.
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