Michel Tellier (February 28, 1750 – October 20, 1834) was a farmer 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 Hertford in the
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. The lower house consisted of el ...
from 1800 to 1804. His name also appears as Michel Letellier.
He was born in
Saint-Vallier, the son of a
French-born soldier François Letellier and Marie-Françoise Pelletier. He operated a farm at Saint-Vallier. Tellier did not run for reelection in 1804. He was married twice: to Marie-Louise Moreau in 1774 and then to Marie-Hélène Queret in 1808. Tellier died in Saint-Vallier at the age of 84.
His grandfather is Michel Letellier who, originally from Saint-Quentin, in the diocese of Noyon, migrated to New France around 1705 with his wife Marie Mélie. Their son, François Letellier de Saint-Just, born in Québec in 1709, became a soldier in Fouville's company and retired from the troops in October 1740, after marrying Marie-Françoise Pelletier in Québec on January 25, 1740. Michel Tellier is their son. Michel Tellier's grandson
Luc Letellier de Saint-Just served in the assembly for the Province of Canada and as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
[P.-B. Casgrain, ''Letellier de Saint-Just et son temps, Quebec City: C. Daveau, éditeur, 1885, 470 pages.]
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1750 births
1834 deaths
Letellier de St-Just family
Canadian people of French descent
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada