Joseph Robitaille was a miller, farmer and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

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. He represented Cornwallis in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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 from 1808 to 1830, as a supporter of the Parti canadien

Parti canadien

The Parti canadien or Parti patriote was a political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century...

 and later the Parti patriote.

He was born in Ancienne-Lorette, the son of Romain Robitaille and Marie-Josephte Drolet. Robitaille lived in the Saint-Louis parish of Kamouraska

Kamouraska, Quebec

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, later moving to Saint-Pascal

Saint-Pascal, Quebec

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. He was married twice: first to Marie-Rosalie Gagnon in 1799 and then later to Élisabeth Falardeau. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1830. Robitaille died at Saint-Pascal at the age of 87.