Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc (November 25, 1766 – November 30, 1832) was a businessman and political figure in

Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...

. He was born Charles-Baptiste Bouc in

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, the son of a merchant, and was involved in the trade of grain and

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s, as well as lending money. In 1785, he married Archange Lepage. He inherited some livestock and property from his father. In 1796, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Effingham. He was found guilty of defrauding a local wheat farmer in 1799 and he was jailed and then expelled from his seat in the house. In 1800, Bouc was elected again but was again expelled. Bouc was elected in subsequent by-elections and expelled two more times. Alexis Caron, a lawyer who later was elected to the legislative assembly for Surrey, represented Bouc. In April 1802, the assembly passed a bill with the explicit stated purpose of preventing Bouc from ever sitting in the assembly.

Pierre-Amable de Bonne Pierre-Amable de Bonne (November 25, 1758 – September 6, 1816) was a seigneur, lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Montreal in 1758, the son of Louis de Bonne de Missègle (1717-1760), Chevalier de Saint-Loui ...

and members of the Bureaucrat party supported the expulsion of Bouc; many of the members of the parti canadien opposed these actions.

Angus Shaw Angus Shaw (unknown – July 19, 1832) was a fur trader and political figure in Lower Canada. Life He was probably born in Scotland and came to North America some time before 1786, when he is found at Montreal. With the help of the Indian age ...

was elected for Effingham after Bouc had been expelled for the last time. Bouc continued to be a leading figure in the community until he was convicted of treasonable practices in 1807 and then for fraud and theft in 1811. He was forced to retire from business and sell some of his property to cover his debts. He died at Terrebonne in 1832. His son Séraphin became a farmer and was later elected to the legislative assembly for Terrebonne.

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''Les petites choses de notre histoire. Deuxième série'', P-G Roy (1919)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bouc, Charles-Jean-Baptiste 1766 births 1832 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada