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6 unusual facts about Canada East


Albert Prefontaine

Born in Upton, Canada East (now Quebec), the son of Firman Prefontaine and Matilda Desautel, Préfontaine was educated in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Beaubien Street

The street is named after Pierre Beaubien, the physician and political figure in Canada East and father of Louis Beaubien, the founder of Outremont in 1875 and deputy to the Legislative Assembly for many years.

Executive Council of the Province of Canada

Members were appointed, often for life and came from Canada East and Canada West.

Great Coalition

The previous collapse after only three months of a coalition government formed by George-Étienne Cartier and Conservative John A. Macdonald (the sixth government in six years) had demonstrated that continued governance of Canada East and Canada West under the 1840 Act of Union had become untenable.

Markham Gang

Items worth more money, like watches, could be transported as far as Canada East, where they would be exchanged for counterfeit money at the rate of $100 for each $10 of goods.

Ovila Cayer

Born in Saint-Rémi, Canada East (present-day Quebec), Cayer immigrated to the United States, where he was known by the nickname "Frenchy".


Aaron Sweet

He was born in Hemmingford, Canada East, the son of R. Sweet and Eleana Broder, the sister of Andrew Broder.

Arthur Boyer

Born in Montreal, Canada East, the son of Louis Boyer and Marie-Aurélie Mignault, Boyer studied in Montreal and at the University of London.

Ernest Choquette

Born in Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Canada East, Choquette studied medicine at the Université de Laval à Montréal (now called Université de Montréal).

Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte

He was born in Trois-Rivières, Canada East in 1848, the son of Joseph-Édouard Turcotte and Flore Buteau, and was educated at the Jesuit-run Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal and the Séminaire Saint-Joseph in Trois-Rivières.

Henry George Carroll

Born in Kamouraska, Canada East, Carroll studied law at Laval University, was called to the bar in 1889, and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1899.

John Short

Born in Richmond, Upper Canada and educated in Lennoxville, Canada East, he was the son of the Reverend Robert Short and Margaret Lyon, the grandson of John Quirk Short and the great-grandson of Robert Quirk Short.

Joseph Benjamin Prince

He was born in St-Grégoire, Canada East, the son of Benjamin Prince and Louise Bourdage.

Joseph Marmette

Born in Montmagny, Canada East, Marmette was educated at the Séminaire de Québec and Regiopolis College.

Joseph-Félix Descôteaux

He was born in Sainte-Monique, Canada East, the son of Félix Descoteaux and Marie-Thérèse Manseau.

Louis-Antoine Dessaulles

In 1847, Dessaulles began writing articles for the newspaper L'Avenir; he supported Papineau, opposed the political power of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada East, opposed the union of Upper and Lower Canada and supported annexation with the United States.

Melbourne McTaggart Tait

Born in Melbourne, Canada East, studied at St Francis College and received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from McGill University in 1862.

Provincial Secretary and Registrar of Ontario

Sir Dominick Daly (1844-1848) - former Provincial Secretary of Lower Canada (1827-1840), Canada East (1843-1844)

Tancrède-Charles Gaboury

He was born in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Canada East, the son of Jean-Baptiste Gaboury and Rosalie Ayet dit Malo, and was educated there, at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, at Saint Joseph's University in Ottawa and at Victoria College in Montreal.

Thomas Chapais

Born in Saint-Denis, Quebec (then Canada East), the son of Jean-Charles Chapais, a Father of Canadian Confederation, and Henriette-Georgina Dionne, he received a Bachelor's degree in 1876 from Université Laval and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1879.

Victor Morin

Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East, Morin studied at the Université Laval de Montréal.

William Warren Lynch

Born near the Village of Bedford, County of Missisquoi, Canada East, the son of Thomas Lynch of County Cavan and Charlotte R. Williams, Lynch attended Stanbridge Academy and entered the University of Vermont in 1861 but did not continue his studies there due to the American Civil War.


see also

Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay

Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay (1809–1886), political figure in Canada East and member of the Senate of Canada

Cirque Mountain

Before 1971, it was believed that Cirque Mountain was the highest peak, in Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Baffin Island.

Juchereau Duchesnay

Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay (1809–1886), political figure in Canada East and a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada

Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay (1809–1871), seigneur, lawyer and political figure in Canada East

Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière

His grandsons, Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood and Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, both later became members of the legislative assembly for Canada East and then Quebec.