Geoffroy-Modeste LAREAU

(b. 7 February 1794 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. abt. 1878 , )

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Geoffroy-Modeste LAREAU was born 7 February 1794 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Geoffroy-Modeste LAREAU was the child of Joseph LAREAU and Marie-Josephte BOURASSA and the grandchild of: (paternal) Noel LAREAU and Marie-Anne MENARD (maternal) François-Albert-Jacques BOURASSA and Marie-Anne-Jeanne BROSSEAU

Geoffroy-Modeste LAREAU died abt. 1878

m. Boudreau Marie-Clothilde
m. Hamilton Marie-Louise

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Occupation

Geoffroy-Modeste LAREAU was a Farmer & Laborer.
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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