Joseph Turgeon was a master carpenter and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

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. He represented Leinster in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791...

 from 1808 to 1809.

He was born Joseph-Marie Turgeon in Beaumont

Beaumont, Quebec

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, the son of Jacques Turgeon and Marie Fournier. Turgeon established himself at L'Assomption

L'Assomption, Quebec

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, moving to Lavaltrie

Lavaltrie, Quebec

Lavaltrie is a city located within the D'Autray Regional County Municipality in the southern part of the region of Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada, northeast of Montreal outside of the suburban sprawl of the northern crown...

around 1790. In 1778, he married Louise Marion. Turgeon was defeated when he ran for reelection to the assembly in 1809. He died in Lavaltrie at the age of 80.