Cyrille MICHAUD

(b. 20 November 1810 , Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 21 August 1889 , Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada )

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Cyrille MICHAUD was born 20 November 1810 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Cyrille MICHAUD was the child of Celestin MICHAUD and Apolline DUMONT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Benoit MICHAUD and Marie-Scholastique CHORET (CHAREST) (maternal) Michel GUÉRET dit DUMONT and Marie-Louise ROY dite DESJARDINS

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

Cyrille married Angelique LEVESQUE 14 February 1832 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Angelique LEVESQUE was born 30 October 1808 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Angelique died 3 November 1849 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre). Angelique was the child of Benoit LEVESQUE and Angélique LEVESQUE.

Cyrille MICHAUD died 21 August 1889 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Cyrille MICHAUD 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 Cyrille MICHAUD

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Cyrille MICHAUD married

Angelique LEVESQUE-- Date: 14 February 1832 Place: Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada
Angelique LEVESQUE was the child of Benoit LEVESQUE and Angélique LEVESQUE

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Children of Cyrille MICHAUD and Angelique LEVESQUE:

Louise MICHAUD (b.abt. 1836, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Joseph TREMBLAY 22 January 1856 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre)

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1810 Birth
20 November 1810
Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada

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 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Marriage / Partner
Cyrille MICHAUD and Angelique LEVESQUE 14 February 1832, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)

He was 21 years old.

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)

1849 Death of Spouse/Partner
Angelique LEVESQUE died 3 November 1849, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre)

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

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

1856 Marriage of Child
Louise MICHAUD married 22 January 1856, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre) to Joseph TREMBLAY

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.