flag male ancestor  Edouard  BRAIS

  (b. abt. 1818 Québec Province, Canada   d. )  

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Edouard BRAIS was born abt. 1818 in Québec Province, Canada

Edouard BRAIS was the child of Pierre BRAIS dit LABONTE   and   Rose-Genevieve LECLAIR (LECLERC) and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Guillaume BRAY dit LABONTE and Marie-Josephe BROUILLET (maternal)  Jean-Baptiste LECLERC and Marie-Françoise DELAGE dite LAVIGUEUR





m. Daigneau Zoe

Occupation

Edouard BRAIS 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
Did You Know? 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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