Jean-Baptiste
BROUSSEAU
(b.
6 August 1769
,
Neuville, Portneuf, Province of Québec, Canada
d.
,
)
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Jean-Baptiste BROUSSEAU was born 6 August 1769 in Neuville, Portneuf, Province of Québec, Canada
Jean-Baptiste BROUSSEAU was the child of Jean-Baptiste BROUSSEAU and Louise GREGOIRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Louis BROUSSEAU and Felicite PROULX (maternal) Ignace GREGOIRE and Marie-Louise BORDELEAUm. Bertrand Louise
m. Faucher Angelique
Occupation
Jean-Baptiste BROUSSEAU was a 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

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History
Jean-Baptiste BROUSSEAU was a 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

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

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.
Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.
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