Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE

(b. 30 May 1809 , Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 8 April 1878 , Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE was born 30 May 1809 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE was the child of Charles CHAPDELAINE dit VALERIEN and Angelique VEL dite SANSOUCY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles CHAPDELAINE and Archange-Angelique BOUVIER (maternal) Pierre VEL dit SANSOUCY and Madeleine Esther GIROUARD

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

Jean-Baptiste married Catherine DAUNAIS 20 October 1829 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Catherine DAUNAIS was born abt. 1809 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Catherine died 30 June 1893 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada. Catherine was the child of Omer-Cuthbert DAUNAIS (DAUNAY) and Marie-Charlotte AUGER.

Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE died 8 April 1878 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE 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

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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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Family and Children of Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE

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Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE married

Catherine DAUNAIS-- Date: 20 October 1829 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Catherine DAUNAIS was the child of Omer-Cuthbert DAUNAIS (DAUNAY) and Marie-Charlotte AUGER

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Children of Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE and Catherine DAUNAIS:

Marguerite CHAPDELAINE (b.10 May 1834, Sorel, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Athanase MANDEVILLE 26 July 1864 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

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1809 Birth
30 May 1809
Saint-Ours, 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 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste CHAPDELAINE and Catherine DAUNAIS 20 October 1829, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 20 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1834 Birth of Child
Marguerite CHAPDELAINE was born 10 May 1834, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Jean-Baptiste was 24 years old.

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

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)

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)

1864 Marriage of Child
Marguerite CHAPDELAINE married 26 July 1864, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada to Athanase MANDEVILLE

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.