Brown Chamberlin was a Quebec

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 lawyer, publisher and political figure. He was a Conservative

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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 representing Missisquoi

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 from 1867 to 1870.

He was born in Frelighsburg

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, Lower Canada

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 in 1827, the son of Brown Chamberlin, a doctor. He studied at McGill College

McGill University

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 and was called to the bar in 1850. Chamberlin worked as a journalist and was publisher of the Montreal Gazette

The Gazette (Montreal)

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from 1853 to 1867. He later sold the paper to Richard and Thomas White

Thomas White (Canadian politician)

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. He resigned his seat in the House of Commons when he was named Queen's Printer in Ottawa

Ottawa

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 in 1870; Chamberlin held this post until 1891. He served as lieutenant-colonel in the local militia and was named a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Order of St Michael and St George

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 for his role in repelling Fenian raiders

Fenian raids

Between 1866 and 1871, the Fenian raids of the Fenian Brotherhood who were based in the United States; on British army forts, customs posts and other targets in Canada, were fought to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland. They divided many Catholic Irish-Canadians, many of whom were...

 at Eccles Hill

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. He was also a Freemason, and a member of Civil Service Lodge No. 148, in Ottawa. Chamberlin died in Lakefield, Ontario at the age of 70.

Family

In 1870, Brown Chamberlin married Agnes Dunbar FitzGibbon, daughter of Sheriff Moodle, of Belleville and Susanna Moodie

Susanna Moodie

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. The couple had one daughter, Mrs. Badgley. Agnes had married her first husband, Charles FitzGibbon, Barrister-at-law, in 1850 and survived him. By her first husband Mrs. Chamberlin had one son and three daughters. Her daughter Miss Mary Agnes FitzGibbon, wrote a biography of her grandfather, Colonel FitzGibbon, entitled "A Veteran of 1812."

Mrs. Chamberlin was an artist and the author of Canadian Wildflowers (1867) and other works. She drew on the lithographing stone the set of Canadian Fungi (edible) published by the Geological Survey of Canada. She illustrated Mrs. Traill's "Studies of Plant Life." Her drawings were exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia.