Auguste-Réal Angers

honourable the to sir Auguste-Réal Angers , C.P. (October 4th 1837 with Quebec - April 4th 1919) was a judge and politician Québécois. He was Député with the legislative Assemblée of Quebec and with the House of Commons of Canada, and Senator, and he belonged to the federal cabinets of John Thompson and Mackenzie Bowell as a Minister for Agriculture, and the cabinet of Charles Tupper as a president of the private Conseil. However, one remembers him especially to have, as a Lieutenant-governor of Quebec, dislocated his functions the Prime Minister Honore Mercier.

Biography

The place and the birth date of Auguste-Réal Angers are dubious. If the majority of its biographers report that it was born the October 4th 1838 with Quebec, wire of François-Réal Angers and Louise-Adele Taschereau, it would have rather been born in 1837 with Beauport, unknown parents, and would have been raised by Angers and Taschereau like a son.

It makes its studies with the seminar of Nicolet. He is then student independent in right to the Université Laval, but would have received his legal training of his father. He is allowed with the bar of the Low-Canada the July 2nd 1860 and practical the right within one of the most prestigious lawyer offices of Quebec.

He is elected for the first time at the legislative Assemblée of Quebec to the favor of a by-election in Montmorency in 1874, under the banner of the Conservative party. When Gédéon Ouimet is forced to resign following the business of the Tanneries, Charles-Eugene Boucher of Boucherville has to form a new government and names Angers at the station of Solicitor General. Angers introduces various electoral reforms, of which the secret vote. In November 1875, it reaches the post of leader of the government in room and in January 1876 he becomes public prosecutor. Angers quickly becomes the central figure of the government. Since the Prime Minister sits at the Legislative council, it is him which directs work and speaks in the name of the government with the legislative Parliament. It is made a reputation of frightening and intransigent member of Parliament quickly.

In 1876, Luc Letellier de Saint-Just, named Lieutenant-governor of Quebec by the liberal government federal of Alexander Mackenzie, dislocates the Prime Minister of its functions and calls the chief of the Liberal party of Quebec, Henry-Gustave Jolly de Lotbinière, to form a government. At the time the general elections which follow, Angers east demolishes by 14 vote in its district. It business to be convinced the federal government to dislocate Letellier of its functions, which occurs in July 1879.

Angers makes the passage to the federal policy, being made elect with the House of Commons of Canada in Montmorency in a by-election the February 14th 1880. It takes part little in the debates with the communes, and on November 13rd of the same year, it is named puîné judge of the Superior court of Quebec.

In 1887, it is named Lieutenant-governor of Quebec. He generally seeks to avoid confrontation with the liberal government of Honore Mercier, but the tensions reach a top in August 1891 after accusations of corruption made before a senatorial committee in the context of the Scandale of Bay of Heats. Angers forms a board of inquiry to inquire into the business; the report/ratio, presented in the absence of the president of the commission, exonerates Mercier. However, the president of the commission dissociates himself from the report/ratio of his colleagues. Angers makes the decision to dislocate Mercier of its functions and invites Boucher of Boucherville to form a new government.

To stop of Boucherville immediately starts a general election, which it gains. In December of 1892, Angers is named with the Sénat of Canada and is joined the Council of Ministers of John Sparrow David Thompson as a Minister for Agriculture.

Thompson dies in 1894. Following the refusal of Mackenzie Bowell, the successor of Thompson at the station of Prime Minister of Canada, to quickly regulate the Question of the schools of Manitoba, Angers resigns of the cabinet at the same time as two other ministers. The two others are made convince to return, but Angers refuses and remains out of the government as a protest. He also refuses a post office with the Supreme court of Canada. Bowell, criticized of all shares, resigns and is replaced by Charles Tupper; Angers agrees to be useful within its Council of Ministers as a President of the private Council. It leaves its seat with the Senate to be candidate in Quebec-Center at the time of the federal election of 1896, but it east demolishes by the liberal candidate. The general governor refuses to give again its seat with the Senate to him, and it settles with Montreal to practice the right.

It is deceased with Westmount in 1919 and is buried with the Cimetière Our-Lady-of-Snows, with Montreal.

Source

Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line

External bonds

Auguste-Réal Angers - Site of the National Assembly of Quebec
federal political Experiment - Library of the Parliament

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