Nicolas CORMIER

(b. 18 May 1806 , New Richmond, Lower Canada d. 2 October 1887 , New Richmond, Québec, Canada )

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Nicolas CORMIER was born 18 May 1806 in New Richmond, Lower Canada

Nicolas CORMIER was the child of Louis CORMIER and Marie-Mathurine LEBLANC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph CORMIER and Josephte LEBLANC (maternal) Amand LEBLANC and Marie DUHON

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

Nicolas married Anastasie BERNARD 13 January 1840 in New Richmond, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Anastasie BERNARD was born 21 April 1811 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer). Anastasie died 1 February 1885 in New Richmond, Québec, Canada (Sts-Anges-Gardiens-de-Cascapédiac). Anastasie was the child of Isaie BERNARD and Rachel BOURG.

Nicolas CORMIER died 2 October 1887 in New Richmond, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Nicolas CORMIER 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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Nicolas CORMIER married

Anastasie BERNARD-- Date: 13 January 1840 Place: New Richmond, Lower Canada
Anastasie BERNARD was the child of Isaie BERNARD and Rachel BOURG

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Children of Nicolas CORMIER and Anastasie BERNARD:

Marie-Therese CORMIER (b.May 1856, , Québec Province, Canada d. 26 March 1914, )
m. Charles-Ambroise TREMBLAY 14 August 1883 in New Richmond, Québec, Canada (Sts-Anges-Gardiens-de-Cascapédiac)

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1806 Birth
18 May 1806
New Richmond, 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

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
Nicolas CORMIER and Anastasie BERNARD 13 January 1840, New Richmond, Québec, Canada (Sts-Anges-Gardiens-de-Cascapédiac)

He was 33 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)

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

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

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

1856 Birth of Child
Marie-Therese CORMIER was born May 1856, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Nicolas was 49 years old.

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.

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 - 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)

1883 Marriage of Child
Marie-Therese CORMIER married 14 August 1883, New Richmond, Québec, Canada (Sts-Anges-Gardiens-de-Cascapédiac) to Charles-Ambroise TREMBLAY

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)