Jean-Baptiste ETHIER

(b. abt. 1807 , Québec Province, Canada d. 5 August 1884 , Mascouche, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste ETHIER was born abt. 1807 in Québec Province, Canada

Jean-Baptiste ETHIER was the child of Joseph ETHIER and Rose ALLARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste ETHIER and Marie-Rosalie DUPRAS (maternal) Pierre ALLARD and Archange MULOUIN

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

Jean-Baptiste married Zoe BOURGEOIS 31 May 1830 in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Zoe BOURGEOIS was born 18 January 1813 in Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan). Zoe died 30 July 1882 in Mascouche, Québec, Canada (Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche). Zoe was the child of Joseph BOURGEOIS and Monique MARIER.

Jean-Baptiste ETHIER died 5 August 1884 in Mascouche, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Jean-Baptiste ETHIER 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 ETHIER

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Jean-Baptiste ETHIER married

Zoe BOURGEOIS-- Date: 31 May 1830 Place: Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada
Zoe BOURGEOIS was the child of Joseph BOURGEOIS and Monique MARIER

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Children of Jean-Baptiste ETHIER and Zoe BOURGEOIS:

Adelaide ETHIER (b.13 January 1832, Mascouche, Lower Canada d. 21 November 1907, Montréal, Québec, Canada )

Treffle ETHIER (b.abt. 1841, , Québec Province, Canada d. 25 March 1922, Sainte-Julienne, Québec, Canada )
m. Octavie MARION 6 February 1866 in Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Hedwidge ETHIER (b.abt. 1845, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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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)

1830 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste ETHIER and Zoe BOURGEOIS 31 May 1830, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Adelaide ETHIER was born 13 January 1832, Mascouche, Québec, Canada (Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche)

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.

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)

1866 Marriage of Child
Treffle ETHIER married 6 February 1866, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan) to Octavie MARION

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.