15th Parliament of Lower Canada
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The 15th Parliament of Lower Canada was in session from March 21, 1835 to March 27, 1838. Elections in Lower Canada
Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

 had been held in October 1834. The lower house was dissolved following the Lower Canada Rebellion
Lower Canada Rebellion
The Lower Canada Rebellion , commonly referred to as the Patriots' War by Quebeckers, is the name given to the armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada and the British colonial power of that province...

 and Lower Canada was administered by an appointed Special Council
Special Council of Lower Canada
The Special Council of Lower Canada was an appointed body which administered Lower Canada until the Union Act of 1840 created the Province of Canada. Following the Lower Canada Rebellion, on March 27, 1838, the Constitutional Act of 1791 was suspended and both the Legislative Assembly and...

 until the Act of Union
Act of Union 1840
The Act of Union, formally the The British North America Act, 1840 , was enacted in July 1840 and proclaimed 10 February 1841. It abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to replace them...

 in 1840 established a new lower chamber for the Province of Canada
Province of Canada
The Province of Canada, United Province of Canada, or the United Canadas was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of...

. All sessions were held at Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

.
Riding Member
Beauce Antoine-Charles Taschereau
Antoine-Charles Taschereau
Antoine-Charles Taschereau was an official and political figure in Quebec. He represented Beauce in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1838 and Dorchester in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1844.He was born in Quebec City, the son of seigneur...

Beauce Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau
Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau
Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Beauce in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1835 and Dorchester from 1844 to 1845 in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.He was born in Quebec City, the son of seigneur...

Joseph-André Taschereau
Joseph-André Taschereau
Joseph-André Taschereau, , was a lawyer, politician, and lastly, a judge. He was born at Sainte-Marie, Quebec. The son of Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau was a quiet child who early in life discovered a passion for the law...

 (1835)
Beauharnois Charles Archambault
Charles Archambault
Charles Archambault was a surveyor and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Beauharnois in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1838....

Beauharnois Jacob De Witt
Jacob De Witt
Jacob De Witt was a Quebec businessman and political figure.He was born in Windham, Connecticut in 1785, of Dutch descent, and came to Montreal with his family around 1802. He set up a hardware business with a partner in 1814, opening his own business three years later...

Bellechasse Augustin-Norbert Morin
Augustin-Norbert Morin
Augustin-Norbert Morin was a lawyer, judgeBorn in Saint-Michel, Lower Canada, into a large Roman Catholic farming family, Morin was identified by the parish priest at a young age as a boy of exceptional talent and intelligence. The parish priest therefore arranged for his education at the...

Bellechasse Nicolas Boissonnault
Nicolas Boissonnault
Nicolas Boissonnault was a merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Hertford from 1824 to 1830 and Bellechasse from 1830 to 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada....

Berthier Alexis Mousseau
Alexis Mousseau
Alexis Mousseau was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Warwick from 1820 to 1824 and from 1827 to 1830 and Berthier from 1830 to 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada....

Berthier Jacques Deligny
Jacques Deligny
Jacques Deligny was a farmer, merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Warwick from 1814 to 1820 and from 1820 to 1830, and Berthier from 1830 to 1837....

Norbert Éno
Norbert Éno
Norbert Éno was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Berthier in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1837 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838. His surname also appears as Esnault and Hénault.He was born in Berthier, the son of Antoine Éno and...

 (1837)
Bonaventure Édouard Thibaudeau
Édouard Thibaudeau
Édouard Thibaudeau was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Bonaventure in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1836. His surname also appears as Thibodeau....

 
James McCracken (1836)
Bonaventure Joseph-François Deblois
Joseph-François Deblois
Joseph-François Deblois was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in the town of Quebec in 1797, the son of a merchant, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He served in the local militia during the War of 1812...

Chambly Louis Lacoste
Louis Lacoste
Louis Lacoste was a Quebec notary and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1878....

Chambly Louis-Michel Viger
Louis-Michel Viger
Louis-Michel Viger was a Quebec lawyer, businessman, seigneur and political figure.He was born in Montreal in 1785 and studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël at the same time as his cousin, Louis-Joseph Papineau. He articled in law with his cousin, Denis-Benjamin Viger, was admitted to the bar in...

Champlain
Champlain (Lower Canada)
The district of Champlain was established in 1829, under the regime of the Constitutional Act of 1791. It was located in the current Mauricie area and was located northeast of the district of Saint-Maurice on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River...

Olivier Trudel
Olivier Trudel
Olivier Trudel was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Champlain in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1838....

Champlain Pierre-Antoine Dorion
Pierre-Antoine Dorion
Pierre-Antoine Dorion was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Lower Canada around 1789. He worked as a clerk in a store at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade for Pierre Bureau and then established himself as a lumber merchant there. In 1814, he married Bureau's daughter,...

Deux-Montagnes William Henry Scott
William Henry Scott (politician)
William Henry Scott was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East.He was born in Scotland in 1797 and came to Lower Canada with his family around 1800, growing up in Montreal...

Deux-Montagnes Jean-Joseph Girouard
Jean-Joseph Girouard
Jean-Joseph Girouard was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City in 1794, of Acadian descent, and lived with his grandfather, Jean Baillairgé, after his father's death in 1800. When Baillairgé died in 1805, his mother became the housekeeper for a parish priest, who...

Dorchester Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin
Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin
Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Dorchester in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838, mainly supporting the parti patriote.He was born in Saint-Henri-de-Lauzon, the son of François...

Dorchester Jean Bouffard
Jean Bouffard
Jean Bouffard was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Dorchester in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1832 to 1838....

Drummond Edward Toomy
Edward Toomy
Edward Toomy was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Drummond in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1833 to 1838. His surname also appears as Toomey....

Drummond Henry Menut
Henry Menut
Henry Menut was a political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Drummond in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1836 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838....

 (1836)
Gaspé John Le Boutillier
John Le Boutillier
John Le Boutillier or John Le Bouthillier was a Quebec businessman and political figure.He was born in Jersey in 1797 and came to the Gaspé peninsula around 1815 as an employee of Charles Robin. In 1830, he opened his own business exporting dried cod from the Gaspé region and settled in Gaspé...

Gaspé William Power
William Power (Quebec judge)
William Power was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Quebec. He represented Gaspé in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1832 to 1838....

Kamouraska Amable Dionne
Amable Dionne
Amable Dionne was a businessman, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East.He was born in Kamouraska in 1781 and grew up there. He became a clerk for Pierre Casgrain, a merchant at Rivière-Ouelle, and, in 1811, was made a partner in the business...

 
Alexandre Fraser (1835)
Kamouraska Pierre Canac, dit Marquis
L'Acadie Merritt Hotchkiss
Merritt Hotchkiss
Merritt Hotchkiss was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented L'Acadie in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838....

L'Acadie Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté
Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté
Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté was a physician and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born Cyrille-Hector Côté in Quebec City in 1809, of Acadian descent, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. He became a teacher...

Lachenaie Charles Courteau
Charles Courteau
Charles Courteau was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Leinster from 1824 to 1827 and Lachenaie from 1830 to 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada as a supporter of the Parti patriote.He was born in Deschaillons, Quebec, the son of Julien Courteau and...

Lachenaie Jean-Marie Rochon
Jean-Marie Rochon
Jean-Marie Rochon was a master carpenter and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Leinster from 1822 to 1827 and Lachenaie from 1830 to 1837 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada....

 
Ludger Duvernay
Ludger Duvernay
Ludger Duvernay was born in Verchères, Quebec, Canada.He was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and Montreal, and also La Minerve, which supported the Parti patriote and...

 (1837)
Laprairie Jean-Moïse Raymond
Jean-Moïse Raymond
Jean-Moïse Raymond was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East.He was born in La Tortue in 1787, the son of Jean-Baptiste Raymond, and later moved to La Prairie with his family...

Laprairie Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal
Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal
Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada. He was the first person executed for taking part in the Lower Canada Rebellion....

L'Assomption Édouard-Étienne Rodier
Édouard-Étienne Rodier
Édouard-Étienne Rodier was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born Étienne-Édouard Rodier in Montreal in 1804, the son of a Montreal merchant, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal...

L'Assomption Jean-Baptiste Meilleur
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur was a doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Petite-Côte in Saint-Laurent, Lower Canada on the Island of Montreal in 1796, the son of Jean Meilleur, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and an English school in Montreal...

L'Islet Jean-Baptiste Fortin
Jean-Baptiste Fortin
Jean-Baptiste Fortin was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Devon from 1804 to 1814 and from 1820 to 1830 and L'Islet from 1830 to 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada....

L'Islet Jean-Charles Létourneau
Jean-Charles Létourneau
Jean-Charles Létourneau was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud in 1775 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. Létourneau articled as a notary with Roger Lelièvre and later Nicolas-Gaspard Boisseau, qualifying to practice in 1803...

Lotbinière Louis Méthot
Louis Méthot
Louis Méthot was a Quebec businessman and political figure.He was born Louis Méthotte at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Lower Canada in 1793. Méthot was a merchant at Sainte-Croix. He served in the local militia during the War of 1812, becoming lieutenant. He was named justice of the peace...

Lotbinière Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël
Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël
Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël was a seigneur, physician and political figure in Quebec. He represented Lotbinière in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1838 and in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1844.He was born in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, the son of...

Mégantic John Greaves Clapham
John Greaves Clapham
John Greaves Clapham was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East.Clapham was a merchant at Quebec City. In 1816, he married Helena, the daughter of judge Henry Black. Clapham was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Mégantic in 1834...

Missisquoi Ephraim Knight
Ephraim Knight
Ephraim Knight was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Missisquoi in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838....

Missisquoi William Baker
William Baker (Lower Canada politician)
William Baker was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Missisquoi in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1854 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838....

Montmorency Elzéar Bédard
Elzéar Bédard
Elzéar Bédard was a lawyer and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. He later became a judge.He was born at Quebec City in 1799, the son of Pierre-Stanislas Bédard...

Nicolas Lefrançois
Nicolas Lefrançois
Nicolas Lefrançois was a land surveyor and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Montmorency in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1836 until the suspension of the constitution in 1837....

 (1836)
Montmorency Vital Têtu
Vital Têtu
Vital Têtu was a political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Montmorency in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1836 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838....

 (1836)
Montreal County Côme-Séraphin Cherrier
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Repentigny in 1798, the son of a farmer and merchant. After his mother died in 1801, he was raised by the family of his uncle Denis Viger. Another uncle was Joseph Papineau...

Montreal County André Jobin
André Jobin
André Jobin was a Quebec notary and political figure.He was born in Montreal in 1786 and studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël there. He qualified as a notary in 1813 and set up practice in Montreal...

 (1835)
Montreal East Joseph Roy
Montreal East James Leslie
Montreal West Louis-Joseph Papineau
Louis-Joseph Papineau
Louis-Joseph Papineau , born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838. His father was Joseph Papineau, also a famous politician in Quebec...

Montreal West Robert Nelson
Nicolet Jean-Baptiste Proulx
Jean-Baptiste Proulx (politician)
Jean-Baptiste Proulx was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Nicolet in 1793, the son of a farmer, and studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He returned to the family farm after completing his studies. Proulx served in the local militia during the War of 1812 and later...

Nicolet Louis Bourdages
Louis Bourdages
Louis Bourdages was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born Louis-Marie Bourdages in Jeune-Lorette, Quebec in 1764, the son of Raymond Bourdages, an Acadian doctor and merchant. Bourdages studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he met Pierre-Stanislas Bédard...

Jean-Baptiste Hébert
Jean-Baptiste Hébert
Jean-Baptiste Hébert was a merchant, farmer, master carpenter and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Buckingham from 1808 to 1814 and Nicolet from 1835 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.He was born in Godefroy, the son of...

 (1835)
Orléans Alexis Godbout
Alexis Godbout
Alexis Godbout was a merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Orléans in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 to 1838....

Orléans Jean-Baptiste Cazeau
Jean-Baptiste Cazeau
Jean-Baptiste Cazeau was a wheelwright and political figure in Quebec. He represented Orléans in the Legislative Assembly of Canada from 1830 to 1838....

Ottawa
Ottawa (County of)
Ottawa was a federal and provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, which was represented in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1830 to 1867, in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1892, and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to at least 1919.The...

Baxter Bowman
Baxter Bowman
Baxter Bowman was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.Bowman was a lumber merchant based in Buckingham, Lower Canada who held cutting rights on the du Lièvre River and the upper Ottawa River. He operated a number of sawmills on the du Lièvre, as well as a gristmill...

Ottawa James Blackburn
Portneuf
Portneuf County, Quebec
Portneuf County is an historic county in Quebec, Canada west of Quebec City on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada.The county seat was Cap-Santé...

Hector-Simon Huot
Hector-Simon Huot
Hector-Simon Huot was a lawyer and politician in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City in 1803, the son of merchant François Huot, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He articled in law with Louis Lagueux, was called to the bar in 1825 and set up practice at Quebec City...

Portneuf François-Xavier Larue
François-Xavier Larue
François-Xavier Larue was a farmer, notary and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Pointe-aux-Trembles in 1763. He articled as a notary with Pierre-Louis Deschenaux, qualified to practice in 1788 and set up practice at Pointe-aux-Trembles. He farmed on land there in the seigneury of...

Quebec County
Quebec County, Quebec
Quebec County is an historic county in the province of Quebec, Canada. The county included the Quebec City metropolitan area and extended northwestward...

Louis-Théodore Besserer
Louis-Théodore Besserer
Louis-Théodore Besserer was a businessman, notary and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Château-Richer, Quebec in 1785. He studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and later became a notary. During the War of 1812, he was a lieutenant in the Quebec City militia, later becoming captain...

Quebec County Jean Blanchet
Jean Blanchet (physician)
Jean Blanchet was a physician and political figure in Canada East.He was born in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud in 1795. He studied at the Petit Séminaire de Quebec and then studied medicine with his uncle François Blanchet. He completed his medical training in London and Paris; he returned and...

Quebec (Lower Town) George Vanfelson
George Vanfelson
George Vanfelson was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Quebec City in 1784, of German descent, and studied law with Jean-Antoine Panet. He was called to the bar in 1805. Vanfelson was a captain in the militia during the War of 1812...

 
John Munn (1837)
Quebec (Lower Town) Hippolyte Dubord
Hippolyte Dubord
Hippolyte Dubord was a Quebec ship builder and political figure.He was born in Bonaventure, Lower Canada in 1801 and moved to Quebec City with his family. He built his first ship, the Bonaparte, in 1827. In 1836, he was named justice of the peace...

Quebec (Upper Town) René-Édouard Caron
René-Édouard Caron
René-Édouard Caron was a Canadian politician, judge, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.Born in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada, the son of Augustin Caron, a farmer, and Elizabeth Lessard, he studied at a Quebec seminary, the Petit Séminaire of Quebec, and studied law in André-Rémi...

 
Andrew Stuart
Andrew Stuart (Canadian politician)
Andrew Stuart was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Cataraqui in 1785, the son of Anglican priest John Stuart, a United Empire Loyalist, and studied with the Reverend John Strachan and then at Union College in New York...

 (1836)
Quebec (Upper Town) Amable Berthelot
Amable Berthelot
Amable Berthelot was a Quebec lawyer, author and political figure.He was born in Quebec City in 1777, the son of Michel-Amable Berthelot Dartigny, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He articled in law with Jean-Antoine Panet, was admitted to the bar in 1799 and set up practice at...

Richelieu Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury
Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury
Lieutenant Colonel Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury was a Canadian soldier, lawyer, politician and newspaper founder.-Early life:...

 
Richelieu Jacques Dorion
Jacques Dorion
Jacques Dorion was a doctor and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City around 1797 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. Dorion studied medicine at Paris and returned to set up practice at Saint-Ours. In 1824, he married Catherine-Louise Lovell, niece of seigneur...

Rimouski Jean-Baptiste Taché
Jean-Baptiste Taché
Jean-Baptiste Taché was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Cornwallis from 1820 to 1824 and Rimouski from 1834 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada...

Rimouski Louis Bertrand
Louis Bertrand (Quebec seigneur)
Louis Bertrand was a Canadian seigneur, businessman and political figure.Bertrand was born in Cap-Santé, Quebec in 1779. He worked as baker at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, then moved to L'Isle-Verte in 1811 and opened a store there...

Rouville Pierre-Martial Bardy
Pierre-Martial Bardy
Pierre-Martial Bardy was a teacher, doctor and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in the town of Quebec in 1797, the son of a wig maker of Italian ancestry, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He was admitted to holy orders, studied theology at the Grand Séminaire de Québec and...

Rouville Pierre Careau
Pierre Careau
Pierre Careau was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Rouville in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1833 to 1838 as a supporter of the Parti patriote. His surname also appears as Carreau.He was born in Saint-Mathias, Quebec, the son of Joseph Careau and...

Saguenay François-Xavier Tessier
François-Xavier Tessier
François-Xavier Tessier was a doctor, publisher and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in the town of Quebec in 1799. He studied medicine for several years and was qualified to practice as a surgeon in 1820...

 
Charles Drolet
Charles Drolet
Charles Drolet was a Quebec lawyer and political figure.He was born in Quebec City in 1795. He was admitted to the bar in 1827 and set up practice at Quebec City. In 1830, he married Marguerite, the daughter of Rémi Quirouet and the niece of François Quirouet...

 (1836)
Saguenay André Cimon
André Cimon
André Cimon was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Saguenay in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1832 to 1838. His surname also appears as Simon....

Saint-Hyacinthe Thomas Boutillier
Thomas Boutillier
Thomas Boutillier was a Quebec doctor and political figure.He was born in Quebec City in 1797 and studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe and the University of Philadelphia. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1817 and settled at Saint-Hyacinthe...

Saint-Hyacinthe Louis Raynaud, dit Blanchard
Louis Raynaud, dit Blanchard
Louis Raynaud, dit Blanchard was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Saint-Hyacinthe in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1838...

Saint-Maurice Valère Guillet
Valère Guillet
Valère Guillet was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Saint-Maurice in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1836 as a supporter of the Parti patriote....

 
François Lesieur Desaulniers
François Lesieur Desaulniers
François Lesieur Desaulniers was a Quebec farmer and political figure.He was born in Yamachiche in 1785. He served as lieutenant-colonel in the local militia. In 1805, he married Charlotte, the daughter of Augustin Rivard, who represented Saint-Maurice in the legislative assembly from 1792 to 1796...

 (1836)
Saint-Maurice Pierre Bureau
Pierre Bureau
Pierre Bureau was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec in 1771. Bureau operated an inn for travellers at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade and a ferry service across the Sainte-Anne River. Around 1811, he moved to Trois-Rivières, where he became a...

 
Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie (1836)
Shefford Alphonso Wells
Alphonso Wells
Alphonso Wells was a land surveyor and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Shefford in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until the constitution was suspended in 1838....

Shefford Samuel Wood
Samuel Wood (Lower Canada politician)
Samuel Wood was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Shefford in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1832 to 1838....

Sherbrooke John Moore
John Moore (Quebec politician)
John Moore was a contractor and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Sherbrooke in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838 and then in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1844.He was probably born...

Sherbrooke Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy
Stanstead John Grannis
Moses French Colby
Moses French Colby
Moses French Colby was a doctor and politician in Canada East.He was born in Thornton, New Hampshire in 1795 but moved to Derby, Vermont with his family in 1798. He studied medicine with the local doctor there, then went on to further medical studies at Yale College and Dartmouth College. He...

 (1837)
Stanstead Marcus Child
Marcus Child
Marcus Child was a Quebec businessman and political figure.He was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts in 1792 and came to Stanstead County, Lower Canada in 1812, where he entered business a druggist. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Stanstead as a reformer in an 1829...

Terrebonne Séraphin Bouc
Séraphin Bouc
Séraphin Bouc was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Terrebonne in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until his death in 1837....

 
André-Benjamin Papineau
André-Benjamin Papineau
André-Benjamin Papineau was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Terrebonne in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1837 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838....

 (1837)
Terrebonne Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine , 1st Baronet, KCMG was the first Canadian to become Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada. He was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1807...

Trois-Rivières Edward Barnard
Edward Barnard (politician)
Edward Barnard was a politician from Quebec, Canada and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.-Background:He was born around 1806. A son, Édouard-André Barnard, gained some notability as a militia officer in Lower Canada....

Trois-Rivières René-Joseph Kimber
René-Joseph Kimber
René-Joseph Kimber was a physician and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East. His grandfather's surname was originally spelled Jékimbert....

Vaudreuil Charles-Ovide Perrault
Charles-Ovide Perrault
Charles-Ovide Perrault was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Vaudreuil in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 to 1837....

Vaudreuil Charles Rocbrune, dit Laroque
Charles Rocbrune, dit Laroque
Charles Rocbrune, dit Laroque was a farmer, merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Vaudreuil in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1833 to 1838 as a supporter of the Parti patriote...

Verchères Pierre Amiot
Pierre Amiot
Pierre Amiot was a farmer, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Surrey from 1813 to 1830 and then Verchères from 1830 to 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada....

Verchères Joseph-Toussaint Drolet
Joseph-Toussaint Drolet
Joseph-Toussaint Drolet was a merchant, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Verchères in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1832 to 1838 as a supporter of the Parti patriote....

William-Henry John Pickel
John Pickel
John Pickel was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented William-Henry in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838....

Yamaska Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, was a doctor and journalist.Born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, he studied medicine in Paris and immigrated to Lower Canada in 1823 where he became involved in the political reform movement of the Parti patriote...

Yamaska Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour
Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour
Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour was a political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska in 1793, the son of seigneur Joseph-Marie Godefroy de Tonnancour, and studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He worked as an administrator on the family estates...


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