PAPINEAU, JOSEPH, surveyor, notary, seigneurial agent, politician, and seigneur; b.
He was a politician who himself became a seigneur by purchasing from the seminary of Quebec part of the seigneury of Petite-Nation on 19 June 1801 and the....
Louis-Joseph Papineau
Lower Canada politician, lawyer, and seigneur
For the 20th-century Canadian parliamentarian, see Louis-Joseph Papineau (Beauharnois, Quebec politician).
Louis Joseph Papineau | |
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Born | (1787 -10-07)October 7, 1787 Montreal, Province of Quebec |
Died | September 23, 1871(1871-09-23) (aged 84) Montebello, Quebec, Canada |
Nationality | Lower Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, Member of Provincial Parliament, Speaker of the House of Assembly |
Louis-Joseph Papineau (French pronunciation:[lwiʒozɛfpapino]; October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation.
He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838. His father was Joseph Papineau, also a politician in Quebec. Papineau was the eldest of eight children[1] and was the grandfather of the journalist Henri Bourassa, foun