Louis-Joseph-Amédée Papineau, or Amédée Papineau (1819–1903) was a writer and Québecois patriot and present at the meeting at which the was founded. He was the eldest son of

Louis-Joseph Papineau Louis-Joseph Papineau (; October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the ''seigneurie de la Petite-Nation''. He was the leader of the reform ...

, a leader in the

Rebellion of 1837 Rebellion is an uprising that resists and is organized against one's government. A rebel is a person who engages in a rebellion. A rebel group is a consciously coordinated group that seeks to gain political control over an entire state or a ...

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 o ...

, and was involved in the rebellion himself. His father was forced to flee, and Amédée followed him to Saratoga Springs, New York. Between 1837 and 1842, he drew up the first four books of his personal journal as
Journal d'un Fils de la Liberté
' in which he chronicled the events of the 1837 rebellion and his life in exil

In 1846 Amédée married Mary Eleanor Westcott in Saratoga Springs. After her death in 1890, he converted from Catholicism to Presbyterianism, and in 1896 married Martha Jane Iona Curren. She was 25. Both marriages produced children. He is the grandfather of Major Talbot Mercer Papineau and the uncle of the journalist

Henri Bourassa Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa (; September 1, 1868 – August 31, 1952) was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. In 1899, Bourassa was outspoken against the Government of the United Kingdom, British government's request for Cana ...

, the founder of the newspaper

Le Devoir (, ) is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910. is one of few independent large-circulation newspapers in Quebec ...

Bibliography

* ''Journal d'un Fils de la Liberté (1838-1855)''. Sillery, Septentrion, 1998, 957 p. (Rough translation : journal of a son of liberty(1838-1855). * ''Souvenirs de jeunesse (1822-1837)''. Sillery, Septentrion, 1998, 134 p. (Rough translation : Childhood memories (1822-1837) * ''Lettres d'un voyageur. D'Édimbourg à Naples en 1870-1871''. . Québec, Éditions Nota bene, 2002, 416 p. (Rough translation :letters of a traveler. From Edinburgh to Naples.) * Aubin, Georges et Renée Blanchet, ''Amédée Papineau, correspondance 1831-1841'', tome I. Montréal, Éditions Michel Brûlé, 2009, 543 p. (Rough translation :Amédée Papineau Correspondence tom 1 :1831-1841) * Aubin, Georges et Renée Blanchet, ''Amédée Papineau, correspondance 1842-1846'', tome II. Montréal, Éditions Michel Brûlé, 2010, 471 p. (Rough translation :Amédée Papineau Correspondence tom 2 :1842-1846)

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