Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

See also: Chauveau

honourable the Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30th 1820 with Quebec - April 4th 1890 with Quebec) was a politician Québécois. He was the first Prime Minister of Quebec after the Canadian Confédération of 1867.

Member of the blue Left Georges-Etienne Cartier, Chauveau take part in the alliance of its party with the English conservatives of John A. Macdonald which had like consequence the Canadian Confédération in 1867.

After the confederation, Cartier represents Quebec in Ottawa, and Chauveau becomes the chief of the Conservative party of Quebec and the first Prime Minister of Quebec; he was also Minister for the State education and provincial secretary. During this same period, it is Député with the House of Commons of Canada for the county of Quebec (of 1867 with 1873).

It at low prices offered grounds to stop strong the exodus towards the the United States.

One will also remember that he lives in Quebec during the epidemic of typhus (1847), then takes refuge in Islet. He tells in his novel Charles Guerin : “At every hour of the day, the hearses moved towards the necropolis (Saint-Louis cemetery); but the evening it was a tumultuous procession, a true race with the tombs. The Irish were about the only ones to form convoys following the skins of their parents and or their friends”.

In 1873, he resigns of the post of Prime Minister after being appointed president of the Sénat of Canada. He occupies this station until the January 8th 1874. In 1878, he becomes Roman law professor with the Faculty of Law of the branch of the Université Laval in Montreal from which he will be the senior of 1884 to 1890. He dies in Quebec in 1890 and he is buried in the vault of the Ursulines.

A street is named in its honor in Quebec.

Careers

Cofounder of the Company Saint-Jean-Baptist of Quebec in 1842
Cofounder of the Canadian Company of literary and scientific studies in 1843
Elected appointed district of Quebec in 1844. Re-elected in 1848 and 1851 without opposition, and in 1854
President of the literary and historical Company of Quebec in 1843
President of the Canadian Institute of Quebec in 1851-1852
Vice-president of the Association of the library of Quebec always in 1851-1852
Named within the Commission of the harbor of Quebec in March 1876, he becomes president in April about it.
President of the royal Company of Canada.

Works and periodicals

the Canadian
Mail of the United States
Charles Guerin: Canadian social novel, 1853
the red Pleiad: humorous biographies, 1854
Newspaper off Education for Lower Canada
State education in Canada: historical and statistical precis, 1876
François-Xavier Garneau: its life and its works, 1883

Distinctions

Knight of the Order of Saint-Gregoire-the-Large
Commander of the Order of New Year's Eve
Commander of the Order of Magpie IX
To advise of the queen
honorary Doctor in letters with the Laval University in Montreal
honorary Doctor in right to the University McGill and the University Bishop
Member of the royal Academy of Belgium
Officer of the State education
President of the Institute Canadian-French of Montreal
President of the historical Company of Montreal
President of the Company of archeology and numismatics of Montreal
President of the royal Company of Canada

Related article

Government Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

References

Lived of the immigrants: To immigrate and settle out of Canadian ground with Bibliothèque and Files Canada

External bonds

Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line
Biography of the National Assembly
http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/C/Chauveau.html
'' Charles Guerin '' with the editions of '' the electronic Library of Quebec '' (pdf)

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