Augustin (Augustus) MORIN

(b. 7 August 1799 , Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Lower Canada d. June 1883 , Kemptville, Ontario, Canada )

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Augustin (Augustus) MORIN was born 7 August 1799 in Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Lower Canada

Augustin (Augustus) MORIN was the child of Louis MORIN dit VALCOURT and Marie-Geneviève CREVIER dite ST-JEAN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis MORIN dit VALCOURT and Françoise CARON (maternal) Jean-Baptiste CREVIER and Genevieve FOURNIER

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

Augustin (Augustus) married Rose-Anne-Basilisse TREMBLAY 24 January 1824 in Montebello, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Rose-Anne-Basilisse TREMBLAY was born 1 June 1804 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Rose-Anne-Basilisse died 8 August 1883 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Rose-Anne-Basilisse was the child of Michel TREMBLAY and Ursule GAGNON.

Augustin (Augustus) MORIN died June 1883 in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada.
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Occupation

Augustin (Augustus) MORIN was a farmer.
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.

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Augustin (Augustus) MORIN married

Rose-Anne-Basilisse TREMBLAY-- Date: 24 January 1824 Place: Montebello, Lower Canada
Rose-Anne-Basilisse TREMBLAY was the child of Michel TREMBLAY and Ursule GAGNON

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Children of Augustin (Augustus) MORIN and Rose-Anne-Basilisse TREMBLAY:

Jeremie MORIN dit VALCOURT (b.3 August 1826, Montebello, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Valerie RULE dite DESABRAE (SABRAW) 2 November 1853 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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1799 Birth
7 August 1799
Saint-Laurent, Montréal, 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
Augustin (Augustus) MORIN and Rose-Anne-Basilisse TREMBLAY 24 January 1824, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

He was 24 years old.

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

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

1826 Birth of Child
Jeremie MORIN dit VALCOURT was born 3 August 1826, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

Augustin (Augustus) was 27 years old.

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.

1853 Marriage of Child
Jeremie MORIN dit VALCOURT married 2 November 1853, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Valerie RULE dite DESABRAE (SABRAW)

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.