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François Caron (politician)
François Caron (September 1766 – November 12, 1848) was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Saint-Maurice in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1810 to 1814. He signed his name ''François Caront''. He was born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, the son of Michel Caron and Marie-Josephte Parent. He moved to Yamachiche with his parents in 1783. In 1791, he married Catherine Lamy. Caron served as a lieutenant in the militia during the War of 1812, later reaching the rank of major. He was part of a group of singers known as the "Chantres de Machiche". Caron did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1814. He was speaker for the Patriote assembly held at Yamachiche in July 1837. Caron died at Rivière-du-Loup at the age of 82. His brothers Michel and Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the ...
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Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada () was a British colonization of the Americas, British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence established in 1791 and abolished in 1841. It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec and the Labrador region of the current Province of Newfoundland and Labrador (until the Labrador region was transferred to Newfoundland in 1809). Lower Canada consisted of part of the former colony of Canada (New France), Canada of New France, conquered by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War ending in 1763 (also called the French and Indian War in the United States). Other parts of New France conquered by Britain became the Colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The Province of Lower Canada was created by the ''Constitutional Act 1791'' from the partition of the British colony of the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791) into the Province of Lower C ...
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Saint-Maurice (Lower Canada)
Under the Constitutional Act of 1791, the district of Saint-Maurice was established. Its boundaries, which roughly covered the current Mauricie area except for the city of Trois-Rivières, were reduced when the district of Champlain was created in 1829. History of the electoral map of Québec, Chief Electoral Officer of Québec
Saint-Maurice was represented simultaneously by two Members at the .


Members for Saint-Maurice (1792-1838)


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1766 Births
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Caron Family
A caron or háček ( ), is a diacritic mark () placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation. Typographers tend to use the term ''caron'', while linguists prefer the Czech word '. The symbol is common in the Baltic, Slavic, Finnic, Samic and Berber language families. Its use differs according to the orthographic rules of a language. In most Slavic and other European languages it indicates present or historical palatalization (e → ě; [] → []), iotation, or postalveolar consonant, postalveolar articulation (c → č; → ). In Salishan languages, it often represents a uvular consonant (x → x̌; [] → ). When placed over vowel symbols, the caron can indicate a contour tone (linguistics), tone, for instance the falling and then rising tone in the Pinyin romanization of Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese. It is also used to decorate symbols in mathematics, where it is often pronounced ("che ...
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Étienne Le Blanc
Étienne Le Blanc (1759 – July 11, 1831) was a merchant, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Saint-Maurice in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1814 to 1816. He was born in Champlain, Quebec, the son of Jean-Jacques Le Blanc and Marie Héon, Acadian exiles. In 1796, he married Josette Richerville. In 1801, he moved to Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, ; ) is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain .... Le Blanc was a justice of the peace and a commissioner for the relief of the insane and foundlings. He acquired much property, including the seigneury of Dutort and part of the seigneury of Champlain, as well as land in Godefroy and Roquetaillade seigneuries and in Trois-Rivières. Le Blanc died in Trois-Rivières. His son Ovide Le Blanc was a member o ...
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Joseph-Rémi Vallières De Saint-Réal
Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal (October 1, 1787 – February 17, 1847) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born Joseph-Rémi Vallière at Carleton, Quebec, on the Bay of Chaleur, in 1787, the son of blacksmith Jean-Baptiste Valliere and his wife Marguerite Cornelier (dit Grandchamp). On April 23, 1799, Joseph-Rémi, his mother, father and siblings were all hired at Quebec City as workers by John Blackwood, agent for Joseph-Genevieve de Puisaye (the Comte de Puisaye). They were to join a party of French Royalists, refugees from the French Revolution, at Kingston, Upper Canada. This group, under de Puisaye's leadership, was on its way to York County to establish a settlement on Yonge Street, north of Elgin Mills and south of Bond Lake, on land that is now part of the city of Richmond Hill, Ontario. Jean-Baptiste and family had been hired to assist with the building of this new settlement "according to their respective strengths, skill, an ...
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Château Clique
Lower Canada Tories is a general name for individuals and parliamentary groups in Lower Canada, and later in the Province of Canada's division of Canada East, who supported the British connection, colonialism, and a strong colonial governor. They generally favoured assimilation of French-Canadians to British culture, laws, and the English language, and opposed democracy. Château Clique The Château Clique, or ', was a group of wealthy families in Lower Canada in the early 19th century. They were the Lower Canada equivalent of the Family Compact in Upper Canada. Like the Family Compact, the Château Clique gained most of its influence after the War of 1812. Most of its families were British merchants, but some were French Canadian seigneurs who felt that their own interests were best served by an affiliation with this group. Some of the most prominent members were brewer John Molson and James McGill, the founder of McGill University. Generally, they wanted the French Ca ...
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Louis Gugy
Lt.-Colonel The Hon. Jean-Georges-Barthélemy-Guillaume-Louis Gugy (January 1770 – July 17, 1840) represented Saint-Maurice in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. In his early years at Trois-Rivières he was Justice of the Peace, Colonel of the militia and Sheriff. On entering politics he came to Montreal where he was appointed Sheriff and was elected the first president of the Montreal Mechanics' Institution (now the Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal). He inherited five seigneuries from his uncle, Conrad Gugy. Early life Known aLouis Gugy he was born in 1770 at Paris. He was the son of Colonel Barthélemy Gugy (1737-1797), and his Swiss-French Huguenot wifeJeanne Elizabeth Teissier de la Tour(who died at an advanced age in Montreal), the granddaughter of Antoine de Teissier (b.1667), 1st Baron of Marguerittes in the Languedoc. Though Swiss and the son of an officer in the Dutch service, Louis's father ...
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Parti Canadien
The () or () was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale merchants, including François Blanchet, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, John Neilson, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, James Stuart, Louis Bourdages, Denis-Benjamin Viger, Daniel Tracey, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Andrew Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau. Creation The British Government established two oligarchic governments, or councils, to rule what is today Quebec and Ontario, then called Lower and Upper Canada. Upper Canada was ruled by the Family Compact and Lower Canada by the Chateau Clique. Both groups exerted monopolistic, uncontested rule over economic and political life. The councils were corrupt in their nature by strengthening their dominance by personal use of funds which eventually led to infrastructural problems around Upper ...
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Édouard Caron
Édouard Caron was a politician in the Quebec, Canada, who served as Member of the Legislative Assembly. Early life He was born on April 22, 1830, in Louiseville, Mauricie. City Politics He served as Mayor of Louiseville (then known as Rivière-du-Loup) in 1874. Provincial Politics Caron, ran as a Conservative candidate in the district of Maskinongé in 1867, but was defeated. He won a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1878 in the same district and was re-elected in 1881 and 1886. His last re-election though was declared void in 1887. A by-election was called to settle the matter in 1888, which Caron lost against candidate Joseph-Hormisdas Legris of Honoré Mercier's Parti National The Parti National () was the name taken by the Liberal Party of Quebec, Canada, under the premiership of Honoré Mercier. Origin and beliefs It was founded on November 17, 1885, the day following the execution of Métis Leader Louis Riel. .... Death He died on February ...
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Saint-Maurice (provincial Electoral District)
Saint-Maurice () was a provincial electoral district located in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. It includes part of the city of Shawinigan; it does not, however, include the parish municipality of Saint-Maurice (although it borders on it). It was created for the 1867 election, and an electoral district of that name existed even earlier: see Saint-Maurice (Lower Canada) and Saint-Maurice (Province of Canada). In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Following the change in the 2017 electoral map, the riding will be dissolved into the new riding of Laviolette–Saint-Maurice and Maskinongé. Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly Election results * Result compared to Action démocratique ...
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Charles Caron
Charles Caron (January 3, 1768 – January 30, 1853) was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He signed his name Charle Caront. He was born Charles-François Caron in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies in 1768. Caron began farming on land purchased by his father in the seigneury of Yamachiche and also acquired additional land himself. In 1794, he married Françoise, the daughter of Augustin Rivard. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Saint-Maurice in 1824 and reelected in 1827. Caron was defeated in the general election held in 1830. He was part of a group of singers known as the "Chantres de Machiche". He died at Yamachiche in 1853. His brothers Michel and François also represented Saint-Maurice in the assembly. His daughter Victoire married André Gérin-Lajoie; their son Charles later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Cro ...
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