Pierre Langlois (June 14, 1750 – January 2, 1830) was a merchant 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 Dorchester in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1808 to 1814. He was born in Saint-Laurent on the

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, the son of Jean Langlois and Éléonore Nolin. His father was captured at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and sent to

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where he later died. He was in business at

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. Langlois was an unsuccessful candidate for the Buckingham seat in 1795. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1814. Langlois died in

at the age of 79.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Langlois, Pierre 1750 births 1830 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada