Joseph-Claude
BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE
(b.
22 September 1715
,
Chambly, Canada, New France
d.
29 August 1804
,
Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada
)
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Joseph-Claude BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE was born 22 September 1715 in Chambly, Canada, New France
Joseph-Claude BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE was the child of Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE and Marguerite-Thérèse HERTEL and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre BOUCHER and Jeanne CREVIER (maternal) Joseph-François HERTEL DE LA FRESNIERE and Marie-Marguerite-Josephe THAVENET (TAVENET)Joseph-Claude BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE died 29 August 1804 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada .
m. Chatelain Josette
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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
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1715 Birth 22 September 1715
Chambly, Canada, New France
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BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE, JOSEPH (sometimes called Joseph-Claude; he signed Chevalier Niverville), army and militia officer, seigneur, Indian Department official, and office holder; b. 22 Sept, 1715 in Chambly (Que.), son of Jean-Baptiste Boucher* de Niverville and Marguerite-Thérèse Hertel de La Fresnière; m. 5 Oct. 1757 Marie-Josephte Châtelin in Trois-Rivières (Que.), and they had 11 children; d, there 30 Aug. 1804.
Joseph Boucher de Niverville began his military career as a cadet in the colonial regular troops in 1734 when he took part in the expedition that Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles* de Fleurimont led against the Foxes. During the next two years he took advantage of his sojourn in the Detroit area to engage in the fur trade with goods supplied by Montreal merchant Pierre Guy*. In 1737 Niverville was assigned to serve under Gaspard Adhémar* de Lantagnac, the commandant at Fort Chambly. Two years later he went to Louisiana with Charles Le Moyne* de Longueuil’s detachment, which...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE, JOSEPH (sometimes called Joseph-Claude; he signed Chevalier Niverville), army and militia officer, seigneur, Indian Department official, and office holder; b. 22 Sept, 1715 in Chambly (Que.), son of Jean-Baptiste Boucher* de Niverville and Marguerite-Thérèse Hertel de La Fresnière; m. 5 Oct. 1757 Marie-Josephte Châtelin in Trois-Rivières (Que.), and they had 11 children; d, there 30 Aug. 1804.
Joseph Boucher de Niverville began his military career as a cadet in the colonial regular troops in 1734 when he took part in the expedition that Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles* de Fleurimont led against the Foxes. During the next two years he took advantage of his sojourn in the Detroit area to engage in the fur trade with goods supplied by Montreal merchant Pierre Guy*. In 1737 Niverville was assigned to serve under Gaspard Adhémar* de Lantagnac, the commandant at Fort Chambly. Two years later he went to Louisiana with Charles Le Moyne* de Longueuil’s detachment, which...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.
1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)
1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada
1804 Death 29 August 1804
Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada
He died at the age of 88.
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