Nicolas Lefrançois (; November 2, 1794 – February 22, 1866) was a

land surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the ...

and political figure in

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. He represented Montmorency in the

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from 1836 until the suspension of the constitution in 1837. He was born in L'Ange-Gardien, the son of Pierre Lefrançois and Marguerite Gravelle, received his commission as a surveyor in 1823 and practised until 1865. He conducted surveys on the north bank of the

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between Portneuf and

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and on the south bank between the

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of Lauzon and Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. Lefrançois was elected to the assembly in an 1836 by-election held after

Elzéar Bédard Elzéar Bédard (24 July 1799 – 11 August 1849) was a lawyer and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. He later became a judge. He was born at Quebec City in 1799, the son of Pierre-Stanislas Bédard. Bédard received a typical ...

was named a judge. He appears to have never married. Lefrançois died in L'Ange-Gardien at the age of 71.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lefrancois, Nicolas 1794 births 1866 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada Politicians from Montérégie Canadian surveyors