Francois-Juste DUCHESNE

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22 January 1835 , Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada

Died

11 January 1889 , Saint-Hilarion, Québec, Canada

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Paul DUCHESNE Elisabeth TREMBLAY

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Born: 22 January 1835 in Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada

Father: Paul DUCHESNE

Mother: Elisabeth TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: Rene-Abraham-Samson DUCHESNE , Felicite-Veronique DESBIENS

Maternal grandparents: Guillaume TREMBLAY , Elisabeth GONTHIER

Francois-Juste DUCHESNE died 11 January 1889 in Saint-Hilarion, Québec, 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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Birth — 1835
22 January 1835
Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada

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)

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.