Jean-Baptiste BOURGEOIS

(b. abt. 1736 , Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. abt. 1765 , Bécancour, Nicolet, Province of Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste BOURGEOIS was born abt. 1736 in Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence)

Jean-Baptiste BOURGEOIS was the child of Charles BOURGEOIS and Madeleine CORMIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles BOURGEOIS and Marie BLANCHARD (maternal) Alexis CORMIER and Marie Anne LEBLANC

Jean-Baptiste BOURGEOIS died abt. 1765 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Province of Québec, Canada .

m. Prince Elisabeth

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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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1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.