Chrysostome BOIVIN

(b. 4 November 1815 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 13 April 1895 , Lac-Bouchette, Québec, Canada )

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Chrysostome BOIVIN was born 4 November 1815 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Chrysostome BOIVIN was the child of Denis BOIVIN and Quirille GRENON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Etienne BOIVIN and Marie-Philotee TREMBLAY (maternal) Henri GRENON and Therese-Dorothee GUAY

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

Chrysostome married Josephte TREMBLAY 27 June 1842 in La Malbaie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte TREMBLAY was born 3 November 1815 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Josephte died 22 May 1901 in Lac-Bouchette, Québec, Canada. Josephte was the child of Julien TREMBLAY and Genevieve GONTHIER.

Chrysostome BOIVIN died 13 April 1895 in Lac-Bouchette, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Chrysostome BOIVIN 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 Chrysostome BOIVIN

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Chrysostome BOIVIN married

Josephte TREMBLAY-- Date: 27 June 1842 Place: La Malbaie, Canada East

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Josephte TREMBLAY was the child of Julien TREMBLAY and Genevieve GONTHIER

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Children of Chrysostome BOIVIN and Josephte TREMBLAY:

Elisa BOIVIN (b.6 April 1843, La Baie, Canada East d. 25 October 1917, Lac-Bouchette, Québec, Canada)
m. Xavier TREMBLAY 15 July 1863 in Roberval, Québec, Canada (Lac-Saint-Jean)

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1815 Birth
4 November 1815
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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 - 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

1842 Marriage / Partner
Chrysostome BOIVIN and Josephte TREMBLAY 27 June 1842, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 26 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)

1843 Birth of Child
Elisa BOIVIN was born 6 April 1843, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Chrysostome was 27 years old.

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

1863 Marriage of Child
Elisa BOIVIN married 15 July 1863, Roberval, Québec, Canada (Lac-Saint-Jean) to Xavier 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.