Augustin PELLETIER

(b. 13 June 1785 , Rivière-Ouelle, Province of Québec, Canada d. 12 March 1824 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada )

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Augustin PELLETIER was born 13 June 1785 in Rivière-Ouelle, Province of Québec, Canada

Augustin PELLETIER was the child of Augustin PELLETIER and Marie-Louise BERUBE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph PELLETIER and Marie-Anne BOUCHER (maternal) François BERUBE and Angélique-Madeleine LEVESQUE

Augustin PELLETIER died 12 March 1824 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada .

m. St-Pierre Lucie

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Occupation

Augustin PELLETIER 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

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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

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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