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Adolphe Jacquies
Adolphe Jacquies ( – 30 January 1860) was a Canadian shopkeeper, printer, trade unionist, and newspaper publisher in Quebec City. Born in Bordeaux, he immigrated to Quebec City sometime before 1826. In 1836, he reorganised the Quebec City printers into the Canadian Typographical Union. He became a typographer in 1837 and published a newspaper called ''Le Fantasque (newspaper), Le Fantasque''. In 1839, he was arrested for printing a poem in the paper and released afterwards with health complications. He continued printing newspapers and wrote editorials for the ''Canadian Colonist and Commercial Advertiser''. His views were sympathetic to the Parti canadien, Parti Patriote and liberal causes. He died in Quebec City. Early life Jacquies was born in Bordeaux, France, 1798. His father was Hilaire-Jacob Jacquies and his mother was Adélaïde Prahm. Jacquies immigrated to Quebec City sometime before 1826 and opened a confectionery business. In 1836, Jacquies helped to reor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventhList of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, -largest city and the seventhList of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, -largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the List of towns in Quebec, second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. The Algonquian people had originally named the area , an Algonquin language, AlgonquinThe Algonquin language is a distinct language of the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language family, and is not a misspelling. word meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
