Joseph-Isidore Bédard (January 9, 1806 – April 14, 1833) was a lawyer and political figure in

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 ...

. He was born in

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in 1806, the son of

Pierre-Stanislas Bédard Pierre-Stanislas Bédard (September 13, 1762 – April 26, 1829) was a lawyer, judge, journalist and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Charlesbourg in 1762, descended from French ancestors who had first arrived in New Franc ...

, and studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet, where he was a brilliant student. He articled in law with Georges-Barthélemi Faribault and was called to the bar in 1829. He was elected to the

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for Saguenay in 1830. He opposed an elected legislative council and voted against the expulsion of Robert Christie from the assembly. Bédard wrote the words to the patriotic song ''Sol Canadien! Terre chérie!'', first published in the ''Quebec Gazette''. Bédard travelled to England with

Denis-Benjamin Viger Denis-Benjamin Viger (; August 19, 1774 – February 13, 1861) was a 19th-century politician, lawyer, and newspaper publisher in Lower Canada, who served as joint premier of the Province of Canada for over two years. A leader in the Patri ...

in 1831. In September 1832, when he was about to return to Lower Canada, he suffered a

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of the lungs. He died in Paris in 1833 and was buried in the cemetery at

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. His brother Elzéar was a judge and also served in the legislative assembly.

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''Pierre Bédard et ses fils'', N-E Dionne (1909)
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