Jacques DROUIN

(b. March 25 1807 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada d. August 8 1892 , St-Sévérin de Beauce, Quebec, Canada )
Age: 85

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Jacques DROUIN was born March 25 1807 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Jacques DROUIN was the child of Jacques DROUIN and Marie-Josephe LACHANCE dite PEPIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel DROUIN and Madeleine GRAVEL (maternal) Charles PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Marie-Josephte ISOIRE dite PROVENÇAL

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

Jacques married Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE 20 January 1829 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE was born 28 February 1809 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada. Marie-Rose died 9 April 1888 in St-Severin, Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Marie-Rose was the child of Charles LETOURNEAU and Agathe CLOUTIER.

Jacques DROUIN died August 8 1892 in St-Sévérin de Beauce, Quebec, Canada.
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Occupation

Jacques DROUIN 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

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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Jacques DROUIN married

Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE-- Date: 20 January 1829 Place: Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada
Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE was the child of Charles LETOURNEAU and Agathe CLOUTIER

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Children of Jacques DROUIN and Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE:

Adele DROUIN (b.14 December 1838, Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada d. 18 November 1916, Sacré-Coeur-de-Marie, Quebec, Canada)

Thomas DROUIN (b.29 June 1845, Sainte-Marie, Canada East d. 4 May 1894, Très-Saintcoeur de Marie, Mégantic, Plessisville, St-Calixe, Canada )
m. Marie-Louise Azilda RICHARD 7 February 1865

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1807 Birth
March 25 1807
Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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

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)

1829 Marriage / Partner
Jacques DROUIN and Marie-Rose LÉTOURNEAU POLLETTE 20 January 1829, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

He was 21 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Adele DROUIN was born 14 December 1838, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

Jacques was 31 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)

1845 Birth of Child
Thomas DROUIN was born 29 June 1845, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

Jacques was 38 years old.

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.