Aignan-Aimé Massue (October 1781 – February 1, 1866) was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Surrey in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 to 1827 as a supporter of the Parti patriote.
The manorial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire.
The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current-day Province of Quebec, Canada, and the Labrador region of the modern-day Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. The lower house consisted of elected legislative councillors who created bills to be passed up to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, whose members were appointed by the governor general.
He was born in Varennes, Province of Quebec, the son of Gaspard Massue, co-seigneur of Varennes, and Josephte Huet Dulude. He entered into business in partnership with his brother-in-law Étienne Duchesnois, later establishing his own business. He acquired four fiefs along the Yamaska River: Saint-Charles, Bonsecours, Bourchemin and Bourg-Marie-Ouest. Massue was married twice: to Celeste Richard in 1811 and to Suzanne-Éléonore Perrault in 1842. Massue resigned his seat in 1827 to allow Louis-Joseph Papineau to be elected in Surrey. He was named a justice of the peace in 1830 and commissioner for the trial of minor causes in 1837. Massue did not support the Lower Canada Rebellion. He died in Varennes at the age of 84.
Varennes is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Saint Lawrence River in the Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality. The city is approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) from Downtown Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 20,994. In 2015, the population is listed at 24,000.
The Yamaska River is a river in southern Quebec, Canada.
Louis-Joseph Papineau, born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838. His father was Joseph Papineau, also a politician in Quebec. Papineau was the eldest of eight children and was the grandfather of the journalist Henri Bourassa, founder of the newspaper Le Devoir. The Papineau metro station was named after him.
His son Louis Huet Massue and a grandson Joseph-Aimé Massue both served in the House of Commons. His brother Louis Massue served as a member of the Legislative Council for the Province of Canada.
Louis Huet Massue was a farmer, seigneur and political figure in Quebec. He represented Richelieu in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1887 as a Liberal-Conservative member.
Joseph-Aimé Massue was a seigneur and political figure in Quebec. He represented Richelieu in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1891 as a Conservative member.
Louis Massue was a businessman and political figure in Canada East.
