Napoleon RUEST

Born

13 January 1849 , Rimouski, Canada East

Died

10 January 1905 , Neigette-St-Anaclet, Quebec, Canada

Age: 56
Cause of Death: coup au ventre, en labourant

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Octave RUEST Henriette LAVOIE

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Born: 13 January 1849 in Rimouski, Canada East

Father: Octave RUEST

Mother: Henriette LAVOIE

Paternal grandparents: Hubert RUEST , Rosalie COTE

Maternal grandparents: Joseph LAVOIE , Anastasie BRISSON

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Napoleon married Julie-Eleonore FILION 11 September 1876 in St-Anaclet de Lessard, Rimouski, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julie-Eleonore FILION was born 7 April 1854 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Julie-Eleonore died 3 March 1938 in St-Anaclet de Lessard, Canada. Julie-Eleonore was the child of Etienne-Napoleon FILION and Julie REHEL.

Napoleon RUEST died 10 January 1905 in Neigette-St-Anaclet, Quebec, Canada.
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WORK & OCCUPATION

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Recorded occupation: 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Napoleon RUEST married

Julie-Eleonore FILION
Marriage date: 11 September 1876
Marriage place: St-Anaclet de Lessard, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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Julie-Eleonore FILION was the child of Etienne-Napoleon FILION and Julie REHEL

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Children of Napoleon RUEST and Julie-Eleonore FILION

Joseph-Napoleon RUEST

Born: 1893 12 02, Neigette-St-Anaclet, Quebec, Canada
Died: 1975 07 23, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie-Anne LE CHASSEUR

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Birth — 1849
13 January 1849
Rimouski, Canada East

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)

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 Marriage / Partner
Napoleon RUEST and Julie-Eleonore FILION 11 September 1876, St-Anaclet de Lessard, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

He was 27 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1893 Birth of Child
Joseph-Napoleon RUEST was born 1893 12 02, Neigette-St-Anaclet, Quebec, Canada

Napoleon was 44 years old.