Maxime ROBITAILLE

Born

26 September 1804 , Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada

Died

20 January 1883 , St-Félix de Valois, Joliette, Québec, Canada

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Joseph ROBITAILLE Marie-Josephte CHARRON dite DUCHARME

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Born: 26 September 1804 in Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph ROBITAILLE

Mother: Marie-Josephte CHARRON dite DUCHARME

Paternal grandparents: Joseph ROBITAILLE , Marie-Louise PELLETIER

Maternal grandparents: Etienne CHARRON dit DUCHARME , Marie-Anne LAMBERT dite AUBIN

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

Maxime married Julie JOLY 21 October 1824 in Berthierville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julie JOLY was born 7 December 1799 in Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier). Julie died 28 November 1871 in St-Félix de Valois, Joliette, Québec, Canada. Julie was the child of Joseph JOLY and Marie-Josephte BOUCHER.

Maxime ROBITAILLE died 20 January 1883 in St-Félix de Valois, Joliette, Québec, 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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Spouse & Children of Maxime ROBITAILLE

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Maxime ROBITAILLE married

Julie JOLY
Marriage date: 21 October 1824
Marriage place: Berthierville, Lower Canada
Julie JOLY was the child of Joseph JOLY and Marie-Josephte BOUCHER

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Children of Maxime ROBITAILLE and Julie JOLY

Philomene ROBITAILLE

Born: abt. 1838, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Charles BARIL 16 January 1860

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Birth — 1804
26 September 1804
Sainte-Élisabeth, 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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Maxime ROBITAILLE and Julie JOLY 21 October 1824, Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier)

He was 20 years old.

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

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.