John Le Boutillier or John Le Bouthillier (1797 – July 31, 1872) was a Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 businessman and political figure.

He was born in Jersey

Jersey

Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

 in 1797 and came to the Gaspé peninsula

Gaspé Peninsula

The Gaspésie , or Gaspé Peninsula or the Gaspé, is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, extending into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

 around 1815 as an employee of Charles Robin

Charles Robin

Charles Robin was an entrepreneur from the Isle of Jersey.He was born in Saint Brélade, Jersey in 1743. By 1763, he was the captain of a ship working in the Newfoundland cod trade. In 1765, with his two brothers and two others, they formed a firm which developed fishing grounds off Cape Breton...

. In 1830, he opened his own business exporting dried cod

Atlantic cod

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 from the Gaspé region and settled in Gaspé

Gaspé, Quebec

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. He represented Gaspé

Gaspé (electoral district)

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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 from 1833 to 1838 and then Bonaventure

Bonaventure (electoral district)

Bonaventure was a federal electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1997...

 from 1844 to 1847 and Gaspé from 1854 to 1867 in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

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. Le Boutillier voted against the Ninety-Two Resolutions

Ninety-Two Resolutions

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. In 1867, he was named to the Legislative Council of Quebec

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for the Gulf division and served until his death in Gaspé in 1872.

His firm, which had grown to 2,500 employees, 12 ships and 169 fishing boats, was taken over by Charles Robin's company after his death.