Louis-Joseph Papineau

Biography

Education

He studies with the Collège of Montreal and later with the Petit Seminar of Quebec. He is allowed with the bar of Low-Canada in 1810.

Public life

He is useful as officer of militia of Low-Canada. He is Capitaine with the 5th Battalion of the Militia of Elite and Incorporée on October 6th, 1812. lieutenant with the 2nd Montreal Battalion on April 3rd, 1811; teach on August 1st, 1803. Assistant judges lawyer. December 23rd, 1813, it replaces Louis Lévesque as judge-lawyer.

According to the traces of his father, he forsakes the practice of the right somewhat and implies himself in Politique. Elected official in the county of Kent to the general election of 1808, it enters to the Parlement of the Low-Canada. It joint with the Canadian Left which is largely majority in room.

January 21st, 1815, he is elected Orateur of the Room of assembly of Low-Canada. The same year, it succeeds Pierre-Stanislas Bédard and becomes chief of the Canadian Parti. It continues the policy of the party which fights against favoritism in the attribution of the civil service posts and denounces the abuses the councils legislative and executive named by the governor. In 1820, it refuses a place in the legislative council trained by the governor Dalhousie.

In December 1822, it leaves for London with John Neilson with an aim of presenting a petition of some 80 000 names against the project of union of the High and Low-Canada subjected in secrecy to the House of Commons by representatives commercial and public administration, in July of the same year.

In 1826, it finds with the head of the patriotic Parti, a Canadian party reformed and considered to be more radical by several politicians of the time.

In 1831, it contributes, by its paramount role in the Parliament, to make vote a Loi guaranteeing the political equality of all the Citoyen S, without regard to the Religion. This allowed inter alia the Juif S holding of the civil registers in the country and reaching the public office. This law was a precedent in the history of the British Empire.

It takes part in the committee which writes the 92 resolutions (there makes some were 93 of them, to refer to subsidies with the farmers and the parliamentary strike), voted by the legislative Parliament the February 21st 1834.

After the arrival of the 10 resolutions of Russell in Low-Canada, it takes the leadership of the protest movement of the people (Rébellion of the Patriots) and takes part at many popular assemblies. It chairs the committee which organizes the Boycott English products in the colony. The November 15th, it creates the Conseil of the patriots with Edmund Bailey O' Callaghan.

It leaves Montreal the November 16th after having learned that the governor Gosford had ordered the arrest of the patriotic chiefs. It crosses the American border the November 25th.

The image of low Canadian nationalism according to Louis-Joseph Papineau

Louis-Joseph Papineau made a speech at the time of the parliamentary debate which names Quatre-vingt-douze resolutions (1834) . This speech was made on February 18th, 1834 with the Room, following the presentation of Quatre-vingt-douze resolutions made by Louis-Joseph Papineau, Elzéar Bédard and Augustin-Norbert Morin, with the Room by Elzéar Bédard, on February 17th, 1834. This proclamation was made at the time of the state of political crisis, economic and social in the colony of Low-Canada. This political discourse was made in order to convince people of the Room to send this proclamation to King d' Angleterre for thus seeing changes in the way of directing the colony by the British mode, to have the ministerial responsibility, to see transforming the Legislative council into the elective Council, to denounce the corruption of the English-speaking, the governor and of the parliamentary system which is not democratic, to have the respect of the French language and that of the Catholic religion, etc To the Room, there are the radicals and moderate patriotic Party as well as the bureaucrats. It is with them that addresses this speech. With the speech, one can discover an image of low Canadian nationalism on behalf of Louis-Joseph Papineau. This one likes its country, this is why he wants to defend it against the British mode and the English-speaking of High-Canada. He wants to see changing the administration of the government of Low-Canada. Louis-Joseph Papineau must be the defender of the country. He wants also the good of the country as much on the plan moral, administrative, economic, political, etc Finalement, he denounces anglophone corruption, a threat for Low-Canada.

Exile

On its arrival in the United States, it is accommodated at the family home of his friend, the judge Reuben Hyde Walworth, with Saratoga in the State of New York. It business then to be made pass its wife and her children to the United States. During a certain time, it tries to obtain the support of the US president Martin Van Buren, but without success.

February 8th, 1839, it leaves New York for Paris, where it hopes to gain the support of the France to the cause of French Canada. In May, it publishes the Histoire of the insurrection of Canada in refutation of the Report/ratio of Lord Durham in the review Progrès . In spite of sympathies of several influential politicians whose Lamartine and Lamennais, France of Louis-Philippe remains neutral in the conflict between the Great Britain and its Canadian colonies. It leaves France in 1845.

Political comeback

In 1848, he is elected with new the Parlement of Canada-Plain the in the county of Saint-Maurice. In serious dissension with the policy of the party reformist of Lafontaine, it breaks the rows and is done appointed independent. Republican convinced after a long stay passed to the United States and to France, it supports the movement annexationist.

He takes part in the creation of the red Parti. He east demolishes with the election of 1851, but however is elected at the time of the complementary elections the following year. He is not presented in the form of a candidate to the elections of 1854.

He withdraws public life shortly after and only reappears to hold a conference with the Canadian Institut of Montreal in December 1867.

He dies with his manor of Montebello the September 23rd 1871.

See too

History of Quebec

External bonds

Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line
Biographical note on the site of the National Assembly
'' a political legacy '' with the editions of '' the electronic Library of Quebec '' (pdf)
'' the 92 '' Resolutions with the editions of '' the electronic Library of Quebec '' (pdf)

Random links:

OJD | Macintosh Centris 660AV | Eugene Isabey | TV-extender | Contract of professionalisation in France