flag male ancestor  Zephirin  GAGNE

  (b. 16 August 1820 La Malbaie, Lower Canada   d. 9 March 1894 Drummondville, Québec, Canada )  

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Zephirin GAGNE was born 16 August 1820 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Zephirin GAGNE was the child of Pierre GAGNE   and   Marguerite BARRETTE and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Jean-François GAGNE and Suzanne DESBIENS (maternal)  Basile BARRETTE and Marguerite SIMARD

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

Zephirin  married  Phebee LAVOIE 21 April 1846 in La Baie, Canada East .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Phebee LAVOIE  was born 25 October 1826 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic).  Phebee died 24 July 1914 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville).  Phebee was the child of Etienne LAVOIE and Marie-Josephte BOUCHARD.

Zephirin GAGNE died 9 March 1894 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Zephirin GAGNE 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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