flag male ancestor  Abel  GUAY

  (b. 16 July 1811 Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada   d. )  

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Abel GUAY was born 16 July 1811 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Abel GUAY was the child of Francois GUAY   and   Quirille GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Francois-Sauveur GUAY and Dorothee-Victoire GRENON (maternal)  Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Felicite GIRARD

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

Abel  married  Louise THIBAULT 18 October 1842 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East .  The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Louise THIBAULT  was born 30 April 1816 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements).  Louise died 18 August 1845 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City).  Louise was the child of André THIBAULT and Ursule BOUCHARD.
Occupation

Abel GUAY 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
Did You Know? 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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