Joseph LACOSTE

Born

21 July 1805 , Boucherville, Lower Canada

Died

12 November 1870 , Saint-André-Avelin, Canada

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Pierre LACOSTE Francoise AUBERTIN

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Born: 21 July 1805 in Boucherville, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre LACOSTE

Mother: Francoise AUBERTIN

Paternal grandparents: Charles LACOSTE dit LANGUEDOC , Marguerite LOISEAU

Maternal grandparents: Joseph AUBERTIN , Josephte PEPIN dite LAFORCE

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

Joseph married Marie-Anne GUYON 2 August 1824 in Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Papineau, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Anne GUYON was born 21 October 1799 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur). Marie-Anne died 16 August 1886 in Saint-André-Avelin, Canada. Marie-Anne was the child of Jean-Baptiste GUYON and Marie-Louise PERRON.

Joseph LACOSTE died 12 November 1870 in Saint-André-Avelin, Canada.
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WORK & OCCUPATION

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Recorded occupation: Fermier

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 Joseph LACOSTE

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Joseph LACOSTE married

Marie-Anne GUYON
Marriage date: 2 August 1824
Marriage place: Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Papineau, Québec, Canada
Marie-Anne GUYON was the child of Jean-Baptiste GUYON and Marie-Louise PERRON

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Children of Joseph LACOSTE and Marie-Anne GUYON

Joseph LACOSTE

Born: 24 January 1826, Petite-Nation, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Julie DEMERS 1847

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Birth — 1805
21 July 1805
Boucherville, 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
Joseph LACOSTE and Marie-Anne GUYON 2 August 1824, Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Papineau, Québec, Canada

He was 19 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Birth of Child
Joseph LACOSTE was born 24 January 1826, Petite-Nation, Canada

Joseph was 20 years old.

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.