flag male ancestor  Joseph  BOILY

  (b. 5 May 1800 Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada   d. )  

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Joseph BOILY was born 5 May 1800 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Joseph BOILY was the child of Jean-Baptiste BOILY   and   Felicite DUFOUR and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Guillaume BOILY and Marie-Anne SIMARD (maternal)  Jean-Baptiste DUFOUR and Genevieve BOUCHARD

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

Joseph  married  Cyrille GIRARD 23 January 1823 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Cyrille GIRARD  was born 28 October 1801 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul).  Cyrille died 16 February 1864 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul).  Cyrille was the child of Antoine GIRARD and Charlotte SIMARD.
Occupation

Joseph BOILY 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

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History
Did You Know? 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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