Joseph-Marie BLAIS

(b. 9 November 1797 , Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada d. 7 March 1871 , Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada )
Age: 73
Cause of Death: Vieillesse

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Joseph-Marie BLAIS was born 9 November 1797 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada

Joseph-Marie BLAIS was the child of Pierre BLAIS and Marie-Josephe DESSAINT dite ST-PIERRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Marie BLAIS and Marie-Charlotte LEBLONDE (LEBLOND) (maternal) Jean-Chrysostome ST-PIERRE dit DESSAINT and Angelique RICHARD

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

Joseph-Marie married Euphrosine BLANCHETTE 27 January 1824 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Euphrosine BLANCHETTE was born 8 October 1797 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada. Euphrosine died 3 May 1855 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada. Euphrosine was the child of Joseph-Marie BLANCHET and Euphronsine CLOUTIER.

Joseph-Marie BLAIS died 7 March 1871 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Joseph-Marie BLAIS 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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Joseph-Marie BLAIS married

Euphrosine BLANCHETTE-- Date: 27 January 1824 Place: Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada
Euphrosine BLANCHETTE was the child of Joseph-Marie BLANCHET and Euphronsine CLOUTIER

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Children of Joseph-Marie BLAIS and Euphrosine BLANCHETTE:

Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS (b.31 July 1828, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada d. 24 September 1904, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada)
m. Jacques BLAIS 27 May 1845 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada

Louis-Théophile BLAIS (b.29 May 1830, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada d. 5 July 1909, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada )
m. Angélique GAGNON 13 November 1849 in Saint-Vallier, Québec, Canada

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1797 Birth
9 November 1797
Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, 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

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-Marie BLAIS and Euphrosine BLANCHETTE 27 January 1824, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada

He was 26 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS was born 31 July 1828, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada

Joseph-Marie was 30 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 Birth of Child
Louis-Théophile BLAIS was born 29 May 1830, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada

Joseph-Marie was 32 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

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 Marriage of Child
Hermine-Vitaline BLAIS married 27 May 1845, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada to Jacques BLAIS

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 Marriage of Child
Louis-Théophile BLAIS married 13 November 1849, Saint-Vallier, Québec, Canada to Angélique GAGNON

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

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

1855 Death of Spouse/Partner
Euphrosine BLANCHETTE died 3 May 1855, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada

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.