Benoit SAVARD

(b. 27 March 1804 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 22 October 1883 , Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada )

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Benoit SAVARD was born 27 March 1804 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Benoit SAVARD was the child of Pierre SAVARD and Felicite DURBOIS MADOR and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles SAVARD and Marie-Dorothée PARE (maternal) Charles-Amador LIENARD and Marguerite LAVOIE

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

Benoit married Reine COTE 16 July 1833 in Château-Richer, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Reine COTE was born abt. 1800 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Reine died 19 July 1875 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. Reine was the child of Joseph COTE and Agnes GRAVEL.

Benoit SAVARD died 22 October 1883 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Benoit SAVARD was a 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

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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.

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Family and Children of Benoit SAVARD

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Benoit SAVARD married

Reine COTE-- Date: 16 July 1833 Place: Château-Richer, Lower Canada
Reine COTE was the child of Joseph COTE and Agnes GRAVEL

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Children of Benoit SAVARD and Reine COTE:

Therese SAVARD (b.14 October 1834, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 22 February 1921, Péribonka, Lac-St-Jean, Quebec, Canada)
m. Francois TREMBLAY 24 July 1854 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1804 Birth
27 March 1804
Les Éboulements, 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)

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

1833 Marriage / Partner
Benoit SAVARD and Reine COTE 16 July 1833, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)

He was 29 years old.

1834 Birth of Child
Therese SAVARD was born 14 October 1834, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Benoit was 30 years old.

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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Therese SAVARD married 24 July 1854, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Francois TREMBLAY

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.