Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE

(b. 1 August 1818 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 16 August 1880 , Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE was born 1 August 1818 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE was the child of Pierre HUS-LATRAVERSE and Catherine GAUTHIER dite DELISLE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre HUS-LATRAVERSE and Exupère COUTURIER LABONTÉ (maternal) Michel GAUTHIER dit DELISLE and Catherine HUS COURNOYER

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

Olivier married Angele LAVALLÉE 20 October 1840 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Angele LAVALLÉE was born 15 February 1819 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Angele died 25 April 1879 in Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada. Angele was the child of Antoine-François LAVALLEE and Judith DUFAULT.

Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE died 16 August 1880 in Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada.
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Occupation

Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE 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 Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE

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Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE married

Angele LAVALLÉE-- Date: 20 October 1840 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Angele LAVALLÉE was the child of Antoine-François LAVALLEE and Judith DUFAULT

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Children of Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE and Angele LAVALLÉE:

Angele HUS LATRAVERSE (b.15 November 1845, Sorel, Canada East d. , )
m. Pierre SALVAIL 16 August 1864 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Jean-Francois-Regis LATRAVERSE (b.5 January 1853, Sorel, Canada East d. 14 March 1915, Sorel, Québec, Canada )
m. Marie-Sophie PELOQUIN 26 August 1877 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada (Beaupre)

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1818 Birth
1 August 1818
Sorel, 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

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Marriage / Partner
Olivier HUS LATRAVERSE and Angele LAVALLÉE 20 October 1840, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 22 years old.

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
Angele HUS LATRAVERSE was born 15 November 1845, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Olivier was 27 years old.

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

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

1853 Birth of Child
Jean-Francois-Regis LATRAVERSE was born 5 January 1853, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Olivier was 34 years old.

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)

1864 Marriage of Child
Angele HUS LATRAVERSE married 16 August 1864, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Pierre SALVAIL

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 Marriage of Child
Jean-Francois-Regis LATRAVERSE married 26 August 1877, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada (Beaupre) to Marie-Sophie PELOQUIN

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)