Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR

(b. 29 June 1784 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada d. 24 August 1871 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada )

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Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR was born 29 June 1784 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada

Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR was the child of Augustin-Claire HOUDE and Geneviève-Thérèse MARTEL dite LAMONTAGNE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Claude HOUDE and Marie-Marguerite TROTTIER (maternal) Michel-Gabriel MARTEL and Geneviève-Catherine SENNEVILLE dite LEFEBVRE

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

Pierre married Marie-Anne LEMIRE 18 June 1810 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Anne LEMIRE was born 26 July 1791 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Marie-Anne was the child of Antoine LEMIRE and Marie-Josephe PROULX.

Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR died 24 August 1871 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada .

m. Lemire Marie-Anne

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Occupation

Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR 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

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.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR married

Marie-Anne LEMIRE-- Date: 18 June 1810 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Marie-Anne LEMIRE was the child of Antoine LEMIRE and Marie-Josephe PROULX

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Children of Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR and Marie-Anne LEMIRE:

Adelaide HOUDE dite LECLAIR (b.2 November 1810, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Vital PINARD 22 October 1844 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Julie HOUDE (b.abt. 1825, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Joseph GENEREUX 5 October 1852 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

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1784 Birth
29 June 1784
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1810 Marriage / Partner
Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR and Marie-Anne LEMIRE 18 June 1810 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

He was 25 years old.

1810 Birth of Child
Adelaide HOUDE dite LECLAIR was born 2 November 1810, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Pierre was 26 years old.

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

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)

1844 Marriage of Child
Adelaide HOUDE dite LECLAIR married 22 October 1844, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre) to Vital PINARD

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.

1852 Marriage of Child
Julie HOUDE married 5 October 1852 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre) to Joseph GENEREUX

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.