Jacques DROUIN

Born

March 25 1807 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Died

August 8 1892 , St-Sévérin de Beauce, Quebec, Canada

Age: 85

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Jacques DROUIN Marie-Josephe LACHANCE dite PEPIN

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Born: March 25 1807 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Father: Jacques DROUIN

Mother: Marie-Josephe LACHANCE dite PEPIN

Paternal grandparents: Michel DROUIN , Madeleine GRAVEL

Maternal grandparents: Charles PEPIN dit LACHANCE , Marie-Josephte ISOIRE dite PROVENÇAL

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

Jacques married Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE 20 January 1829 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE was born 28 February 1809 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada. Marie-Rose died 9 April 1888 in St-Severin, Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Marie-Rose was the child of Charles LETOURNEAU and Agathe CLOUTIER.

Jacques DROUIN died August 8 1892 in St-Sévérin de Beauce, Quebec, Canada.
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WORK & OCCUPATION

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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

Spouse & Children of Jacques DROUIN

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Jacques DROUIN married

Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE
Marriage date: 20 January 1829
Marriage place: Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada
Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE was the child of Charles LETOURNEAU and Agathe CLOUTIER

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

Children of Jacques DROUIN and Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE

Adele DROUIN

Born: 14 December 1838, Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada
Died: 18 November 1916, Sacré-Coeur-de-Marie, Quebec, Canada

Thomas DROUIN

Born: 29 June 1845, Sainte-Marie, Canada East
Died: 4 May 1894, Très-Saintcoeur de Marie, Mégantic, Plessisville, St-Calixe, Canada

Married: Marie-Louise Azilda RICHARD 7 February 1865

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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

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Birth — 1807
March 25 1807
Sainte-Marie, 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 Marriage / Partner
Jacques DROUIN and Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE 20 January 1829, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

He was 21 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Adele DROUIN was born 14 December 1838, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

Jacques was 31 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

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
Thomas DROUIN was born 29 June 1845, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

Jacques was 38 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.