Government Charles-Eugene Butcher of Boucherville (2)

Charles-Eugene Boucher of Boucherville becomes Prime Minister for Quebec following the resignation of Honore Mercier, obliged to desist by the lieutenant-governor Auguste-Réal Angers because of his possible implication in the Scandale of Bay of Heats. The mandate of the government of Charles-Eugene Boucher of Boucherville extends from the December 21st 1891 with the December 16th 1892. It had already formed a first government of 1874 with 1878.

Composition

Charles-Eugene Butcher of Boucherville: Prime Minister.

John Smythe Hall: provincial treasurer.

Louis-Philippe Furrier: provincial secretary.

Thomas Drives out-Casgrain: public prosecutor.

Louis Beaubien: Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Colonization.

Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel: public Minister for Labor.

Edmund James Flynn: police chief of the Grounds of the Crown.

Chronology

December 21st 1891: Assermentation of the cabinet of Boucherville in front of the lieutenant-governor Auguste-Réal Angers.

December 23rd 1891: Charles de Boucherville, minority in Room, starts elections for on March 8th, 1892.

March 8th 1892: the conservatives gain the election with 51 deputies against 21 for the liberals and 1 for the conservative-nationals.

April 20th 1892: the public prosecutor, Thomas Drives out-Casgrain, continues Honore Mercier for fraud. He shows it to have acquired illegally $60,000.

April 26th 1892: beginning of the first session of the Eighth Legislature. As of Boucherville is member of the Legislative council, Louis-Olivier Taillon acts as leader of the government to the legislative Assemblée. It had rendered the same service to John Jones Ross of 1884 to 1887. As regards liberal, Draper who cannot for the moment to take again its station, Felix-Gabriel Marchand acts as chief of the opposition.

October 26th - November 4th 1892: lawsuit of Draper. The members of the jury declare it not culprit after only 13 minutes of deliberations.

December 5th 1892: the new Prime Minister of Canada, John Thompson, announces the nomination of Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau like new lieutenant-governor of Quebec.

December 13rd 1892: in dissension with this nomination, Charles de Boucherville announces his resignation. Chapleau requires of Louis-Olivier Taillon to form the next government.

Characteristics

The government of Boucherville benefits from the scandal of Bay of Heats to gain the elections, but the Conservative party is undermined by the fight between the moderate conservatives and the ultramontanes. Of Boucherville, which cannot sit at the legislative Parliament because he is member of the Legislative council, is thus unable to manage the crisis.

Sources

Robert Rumilly. History of the province of Quebec .

Jacques Lacoursière. popular History of Quebec , volume III. North. 1996.

Paul-Andre Linteau, Rene Durocher and Jean-Claude Robert. History of contemporary Quebec , volume I. Boreal Express train. 1979.

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