Augustin DUFOUR

Born

15 November 1815 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

29 May 1894 , Chicoutimi-Nord, Québec, Canada

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Joseph DUFOUR Emerentienne BLACKBURN

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Born: 15 November 1815 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph DUFOUR

Mother: Emerentienne BLACKBURN

Paternal grandparents: Jean-François DUFOUR , Marie-Madeleine BRISSON

Maternal grandparents: Hugh Augustin BLACKBURN , Genevieve GAGNON

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Augustin married Felicite LAVOIE 9 October 1849 in La Malbaie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Felicite LAVOIE was born 28 September 1827 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Felicite was the child of Jean-Baptiste LAVOIE and Theotiste BOIVIN.

Augustin DUFOUR died 29 May 1894 in Chicoutimi-Nord, 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 Augustin DUFOUR

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Augustin DUFOUR married

Felicite LAVOIE
Marriage date: 9 October 1849
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Canada East

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Felicite LAVOIE was the child of Jean-Baptiste LAVOIE and Theotiste BOIVIN

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Children of Augustin DUFOUR and Felicite LAVOIE

Virginie DUFOUR

Born: 24 January 1853, Chicoutimi, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Reul TREMBLAY 25 April 1870 Place: Chicoutimi-Nord, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne de Chicoutimi)

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Birth — 1815
15 November 1815
La Malbaie, 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

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)

1849 Marriage / Partner
Augustin DUFOUR and Felicite LAVOIE 9 October 1849, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

He was 33 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Birth of Child
Virginie DUFOUR was born 24 January 1853, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

Augustin was 37 years old.

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.