Elie-Clement LEVESQUE

Born

28 August 1810 , Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Died

25 April 1888 , Sainte-Luce, Québec, Canada

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Germain LEVESQUE Marie-Antoinette UNKNOWN

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Born: 28 August 1810 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

Father: Germain LEVESQUE

Mother: Marie-Antoinette UNKNOWN

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste LEVESQUE , Angélique MIVILLE

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Elie-Clement married Salomee PLOURDE 7 November 1836 in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Salomee PLOURDE was born 22 February 1821 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Salomee died 7 March 1898 in Sainte-Luce, Québec, Canada (Ste-Luce) (Sainte-Luce-sur-Mer). Salomee was the child of Jean PLOURDE and Salomee SIROIS.

Elie-Clement LEVESQUE died 25 April 1888 in Sainte-Luce, 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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Spouse & Children of Elie-Clement LEVESQUE

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Elie-Clement LEVESQUE married

Salomee PLOURDE
Marriage date: 7 November 1836
Marriage place: Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Lower Canada
Salomee PLOURDE was the child of Jean PLOURDE and Salomee SIROIS

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Children of Elie-Clement LEVESQUE and Salomee PLOURDE

Salomee LEVESQUE

Born: 17 March 1841, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Canada East
Died: 16 December 1914, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Gobert TREMBLAY 10 September 1860 Place: Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

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Birth — 1810
28 August 1810
Rivière-Ouelle, 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

1836 Marriage / Partner
Elie-Clement LEVESQUE and Salomee PLOURDE 7 November 1836, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

He was 26 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

1841 Birth of Child
Salomee LEVESQUE was born 17 March 1841, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

Elie-Clement was 30 years old.

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

1860 Marriage of Child
Salomee LEVESQUE married 10 September 1860, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic) to Gobert 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.