Pierre Boucher de la Bruère (

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Joseph-René-Pierre-Hypolite) (July 5, 1837 – March 6, 1917) was a

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lawyer, journalist, author, office holder, and politician. Born in

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, the son of Pierre-Claude Boucher de La Bruère and Hippolyte Boucher de Labroquerie, he studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. From 1857 to 1858 he studied law at the Université Laval and he was called to the bar of Lower Canada in 1860. He started practicing law in Saint-Hyacinthe and was protonotary for the judicial district of Saint-Hyacinthe from 1870 to 1875. In 1875, he became editor of ''Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe'' and became owner in 1877. In 1877, he was named to the

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for the Rougemont division. A Quebec Conservative, he was Speaker of the Council from 1882 to 1889 and again from 1892 to 1895. He resigned in 1895 and was appointed

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. He was a member of the group that created the ''Société d'industrie laitière de la province de Québec'' in 1882, an organization to improve the dairy industry in Quebec that founded a dairy school in Saint-Hyacinth in 1892, later taken over by the provincial government.

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* Portrait, 1909, by painter Charles Gill. 1837 births 1917 deaths Presidents of the Legislative Council of Quebec Conservative Party of Quebec MLCs Lawyers in Quebec Université Laval alumni {{Quebec-politician-stub