Toussaint CYR

(b. 1 November 1730 , Laval, Canada, New France d. 3 October 1770 , Laval, Province of Québec, Canada )

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Toussaint CYR was born 1 November 1730 in Laval, Canada, New France

Toussaint CYR was the child of Joseph SIRE (CYR) and Marie-Francoise BOUTHILLETTE (BOUTILLET) and the grandchild of: (paternal) André SIRE (CYR) and Elisabeth CHARBONNEAU (maternal) Pierre BOUTEILLER (BOUTHILLIER, BOUTILLET) and Jacqueline (Jaquette) VANDANDAIGUE

Toussaint CYR died 3 October 1770 in Laval, Province of Québec, Canada .

m. Paradis Marie-Elisabeth

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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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1730 Birth
1 November 1730
Laval, Québec, Canada (Saint François-de-Sales-de-l'Ile-Jésus)

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.