Augustin VANDAL

(b. 31 December 1797 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 7 February 1874 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )

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Augustin VANDAL was born 31 December 1797 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Augustin VANDAL was the child of François VANDAL and Josephte FORTIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) François-Antoine VANDAL and Françoise GRENON (maternal) François FORTIN and Geneviève OTIS dite LANGLAIS

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

Augustin married Adelaide MENARD 12 November 1822 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adelaide MENARD was born 11 January 1807 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Adelaide died 15 September 1884 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Adelaide was the child of Jacques MENARD and Marie LAVOIE.

Augustin VANDAL died 7 February 1874 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Augustin VANDAL 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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Augustin VANDAL married

Adelaide MENARD-- Date: 12 November 1822 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Adelaide MENARD was the child of Jacques MENARD and Marie LAVOIE

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Children of Augustin VANDAL and Adelaide MENARD:

Honorine VANDAL (b.25 April 1855, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 10 December 1930, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada )
m. Elzear TREMBLAY 15 January 1878 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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1797 Birth
31 December 1797
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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

1822 Marriage / Partner
Augustin VANDAL and Adelaide MENARD 12 November 1822, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 24 years old.

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)

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

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1855 Birth of Child
Honorine VANDAL was born 25 April 1855, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Augustin was 57 years old.

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.