Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER

(b. 17 September 1818 , Saint-Luc, Lower Canada d. 7 April 1884 , Iberville, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER was born 17 September 1818 in Saint-Luc, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER was the child of Amable BOUCHER and Marie RENAUD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Michel BOUCHER and Marie-Louise-Françoise BOURASSA (maternal) Jacques RENAUD and Marie-Louise MIMAUX (MIMEAU)

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

Jean-Baptiste married Clemence TOUGAS 23 October 1838 in Iberville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Clemence TOUGAS was born 7 April 1822 in Saint-Luc, Québec, Canada. Clemence died 22 November 1894 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Clemence was the child of Nicolas TOUGAS and Marie-Elisabeth BEAUVAIS.

Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER died 7 April 1884 in Iberville, Québec, Canada .

m. Tougas Clemence

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Occupation

Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER 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 Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER

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Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER married

Clemence TOUGAS-- Date: 23 October 1838 Place: Iberville, Lower Canada
Clemence TOUGAS was the child of Nicolas TOUGAS and Marie-Elisabeth BEAUVAIS

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Children of Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER and Clemence TOUGAS:

Julie BOUCHER (b.abt. 1850, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Louis TREMBLAY 28 November 1871 in Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury)

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1818 Birth
17 September 1818
Saint-Luc, Lower Canada

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER and Clemence TOUGAS 23 October 1838, Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury)

He was 20 years old.

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)

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

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.