Jean-Baptiste Hébert (September 19, 1779 – June 15, 1863) was a merchant, farmer, master carpenter 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 represented Buckingham from 1808 to 1814 and Nicolet from 1835 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838 in the
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.
He was born in
Godefroy, the son of Étienne Hébert and Marie-Josephte Babin, both of
Acadian
The Acadians (french: Acadiens , ) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Most Acadians live in the region of Acadia, as it is the region where the de ...
descent. Hébert served as a captain in the militia during the
War of 1812
The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...
, later reaching the rank of major. He participated in the construction of several churches, including those at
Lotbinière and
Kamouraska and a number of other buildings, including the Séminaire de Nicolet. He was married twice: first to Marie Béliveau in 1801 and then to Judith Lemire in 1807. Hébert did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1814. He was elected to the assembly for Nicolet in an 1835 by-election held after the death of
Louis Bourdages. He was put in prison in February 1838 for taking part in the
Lower Canada Rebellion but was released later that same month. Hébert died at Kamouraska at the age of 81.
His second wife's sister Flore married
Jean-Baptiste Proulx.
He's the great-grandfather of author and poet
Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert (pronounced in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Early life
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Ancestry of Jean-Baptiste Hébert
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1779 births
1863 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada