André Papineau was a cooper

Cooper (profession)

Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads...

 and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

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. He represented Effingham in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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 from 1827 to 1830.

He was born in Montreal

Montreal

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, the son of Joseph Papineau and Marie-Josephte Beaudry, and settled at Saint-Martin

Laval, Quebec

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. In 1797, Papineau married Marie-Anne Roussel. He served as a lieutenant in the militia during the War of 1812

War of 1812

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. Papineau was named a census commissioner for Effingham County in 1825. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1830. Papineau died in Saint-Martin at the age of 67.

His brother Joseph

Joseph Papineau

Joseph Papineau was a notary, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.Joseph Papineau was the father of Louis-Joseph Papineau who had the great distinction of being a fiery player in the history of the French dominated British colony called Lower Canada...

 and his son 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....

 also served in the assembly. His nephews 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...

 and Denis-Benjamin Papineau

Denis-Benjamin Papineau

Denis-Benjamin Papineau was joint premier of the Province of Canada for Canada East from 1846 to 1848. His joint premiers for Canada West during this period were William Henry Draper and Henry Sherwood....

 were prominent politicians in Canada East

Canada East

Canada East was the eastern portion of the United Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec, and was primarily a French-speaking region....

. His daughter Eugénie married 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...

, another prominent politician.