Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau was born in

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April 19, 1775, a son of

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, the patriarch of this important family, and his first wife, Marie-Louise-Élizabeth Bazin. He studied at the

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from 1784 to 1792. He embarked on a military career and became a lieutenant in 1797. Demobilized in 1802, he went into business and set up a distillery with his brother Jean-Thomas Taschereau, in the Sainte-Marie

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. He married Françoise Boucher of Bruère de Montarville in 1805. He continued the business at this property until the War of 1812 when he served with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the militia. Thomas-Pierre-Joseph became a member of the Legislative Council in 1818. In 1821, he took an appointment as a judge in the district of Sainte-Marie and in 1823 a more important position in the district of Quebec. He died on October 8, 1826, and was buried at Sainte-Marie. He had two sons: Joseph-André and Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau. The latter's son, Henri-Elzéar, was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1878, and he became

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in 1902.

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