Octave RUEST

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1819 07 17 , Rimouski, Lower Canada

Died

1896 03 09 , St-Anaclet de Lessard, Quebec, Canada

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Hubert RUEST Rosalie COTE

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Born: 1819 07 17 in Rimouski, Lower Canada

Father: Hubert RUEST

Mother: Rosalie COTE

Paternal grandparents: Joseph RUEST (RUAIS) , Helene LAVOIE

Maternal grandparents: Antoine COTE , Reine LEPAGE

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Octave married Henriette LAVOIE 25 January 1842 in Rimouski, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Henriette LAVOIE was born 19 April 1825 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Henriette died 20 March 1882 in St-Anaclet, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. Henriette was the child of Joseph LAVOIE and Anastasie BRISSON.

Octave RUEST died 1896 03 09 in St-Anaclet de Lessard, Quebec, Canada.
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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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Spouse & Children of Octave RUEST

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Octave RUEST married

Henriette LAVOIE
Marriage date: 25 January 1842
Marriage place: Rimouski, Canada East
Henriette LAVOIE was the child of Joseph LAVOIE and Anastasie BRISSON

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Children of Octave RUEST and Henriette LAVOIE

Napoleon RUEST

Born: 13 January 1849, Rimouski, Canada East
Died: 10 January 1905, Neigette-St-Anaclet, Quebec, Canada

Married: Julie-Eleonore FILION 11 September 1876

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Birth — 1819
1819 07 17
Rimouski, Lower Canada

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)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

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

1842 Marriage / Partner
Octave RUEST and Henriette LAVOIE 25 January 1842, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

He was 22 years old.

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)

1849 Birth of Child
Napoleon RUEST was born 13 January 1849, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Octave was 29 years old.

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.