Robert-Shore-Milnes Bouchette
Robert-Shore-Milnes Bouchette (1805-1879) was a soldier and a Canadian politician. Wire of the geographer Joseph Bouchette, it is especially for its intervention at the time of the Rébellion of the Patriots. Its first name comes from Robert Shore Milnes, which was lieutenant-governor at the beginning of the century.
At the time when Wolfred Nelson organized resistance, it was placed at the disposal of this last, which entrusted the mission to him of passing to the United States to organize a body of troops intended to operate on the border. Bouchette carried out this order, returned to Canada and met the enemy with Moore' S Corners, where it fell to the hands from the soldiers from Colborne.
It spent a few months in the prison of Montreal, before being exiled in Bermuda with W. Nelson, Masson, Viger, Gauvin, DesRivières, Goddu and Marchessault. After the disavowal of the ordinance of Durham which had struck it, like his/her companions, Bouchette returned to Canada where he followed during a few years his lawyer occupation in Montreal and Toronto, in company with Mr. de Salaberry. Later it accepted the load of director of the department of the Customs, which it occupied until his death. This ministry owes him its organization.
In 1867, it had the honor to represent, with Joseph-Charles Taché, Canada with the World Fair of Paris. It lute in one of the congresses held in this city at this time, a Report extremely noticed on the unification of the currencies and also of the weights and measurements based on the metric system.
Its memories were published by AD Detect and Errol Bouchette in 1903.
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