Damase GILBERT

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abt. 1805 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

5 March 1890 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

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David GILBERT Marie-Luce SIMARD

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Born: abt. 1805 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: David GILBERT

Mother: Marie-Luce SIMARD

Paternal grandparents: Pierre GILBERT , Marie-Angélique DUFOUR

Maternal grandparents: Louis-Henri SIMARD , Felicite BOIVIN

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Damase married Adeline MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES 29 January 1828 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adeline MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES was born 28 January 1808 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Adeline died 11 May 1873 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay). Adeline was the child of Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Marie-Euphrosine ROULEAU.

Damase GILBERT died 5 March 1890 in Chicoutimi, 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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Damase GILBERT married

Adeline MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES
Marriage date: 29 January 1828
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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Adeline MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES was the child of Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Marie-Euphrosine ROULEAU

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Children of Damase GILBERT and Adeline MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES

Marie-Demerise GILBERT

Born: 4 November 1840, Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada
Died: 14 June 1897, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Honore TREMBLAY 16 November 1858 Place: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Damase GILBERT and Adeline MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES 29 January 1828, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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

1840 Birth of Child
Marie-Demerise GILBERT was born 4 November 1840, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

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

1858 Marriage of Child
Marie-Demerise GILBERT married 16 November 1858, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Honore TREMBLAY

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.