Charles-Auguste-Maximilien (C.A.M.) Globensky (November 15, 1830 – February 12, 1906) was a writer and politician. C.A.M. Globensky was the grandson of August Franz Globensky, a Polish surgeon who fought alongside Hessian mercenaries for the British during the American Revolutionary war, settling in Verchères, Quebec, and the son of Lieutenant-Colonel

Maximilien Globensky Lieutenant-Colonel Maximilien Globensky (15 April 1793 – 16 June 1866) was a French-Canadian who fought for the British in the War of 1812 and for the loyalists in the Rebellions of 1837. Born in Verchères, Lower Canada, Maximilien was the ...

Career

He was born in Saint-Eustache,

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 ...

and was educated at the Seminaire de Ste-Therese and the College de Montreal. Globensky was

seigneur ''Seigneur'' is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. A seigneur refers to the person or collective who owned a ''seigneurie'' (or ...

of Milles-Isles. An expert in agriculture, C.A.M. Globensky published a number of articles on the subject and was president of the Agricultural Society of Two Mountains. In 1854, he married Virginia Marguerite Dumont. In 1868 and 1869 he wrote a series of articles on the development of railways in Quebec. Beginning in 1873, he published widely read political articles in ''Le Monde'' and ''La Minerve''. In 1883 he published a book, ''La Rébellion de 1837 à Saint-Eustache'', dedicated to defending the memory of his father against accusations of not supporting the

Patriotes The patriotes movement was a political movement that existed in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) from the turn of the 19th century to the Patriote Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 and the subsequent Act of Union of 1840. The partisan embodiment of ...

in the 1837 Rebellion as well as providing a political analysis of the uprising. In an 1875 by-election, he sought a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as an

Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

representing Two Mountains. During the election campaign, the loyalist sympathies of his family were the subject of debate, but he was elected nevertheless. Disliking politics, he resigned his office the following year. In 1888 he was offered a seat in the Senate of Canada but declined. Globensky also served as mayor of Saint-Eustache. He died in Saint-Eustache at the age of 75. Today, his home located at 233 rue Saint-Eustache in

Saint-Eustache, Quebec Saint-Eustache () is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in western Quebec, Canada, west of Montreal on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles. It is located northwest of Montreal. History The city was founded in 1770 and was incorpo ...

, is home to a museum displaying information about and relics from the

Battle of Saint-Eustache The Battle of Saint-Eustache was a decisive battle in the Lower Canada Rebellion in which government forces defeated the principal remaining Patriotes camp at Saint-Eustache on December 14, 1837. Prelude After the victory at Saint-Charles, th ...

in 1837.

References

* * * Globensky, Yvon, ''Historie de la Famille Globensky''. Montreal, Quebec: Les Editions du Fleuve, 1991. .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Globensky, Charles Charles Globensky 1830 births 1906 deaths Independent MPs in the Canadian House of Commons Canadian people of Polish descent Canadian agronomists Mayors of places in Quebec People from Saint-Eustache, Quebec