Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard (November 23, 1856 – March 30, 1927) was a farmer, notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Montcalm in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1881 to 1886 as a Conservative.
Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are agents of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record instruments for private parties and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State. As opposed to most notaries public, their common-law counterparts, civil-law notaries are highly trained, licensed practitioners providing a range of regulated services, and whereas they hold a public office, they nonetheless operate usually—but not always—in private practice and are paid on a fee-for-service basis. They often receive the same education as attorneys at civil law but without qualifications in advocacy, procedural law, or the law of evidence, somewhat comparable to solicitor training in certain common-law countries.
Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.
Montcalm was a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.
He was born in Saint-Liguori, Canada East, the son of Simon Richard and Éléonore Forest, and was educated there and at the Collège de l'Assomption. Richard established himself on a farm at Saint-Liguori. He was elected to the Quebec assembly in 1881 and again in 1886, but resigned his seat in 1886 after being named a crown lands agent. Richard served as clerk for the Executive Council in 1887. Around 1891, he became customs inspector for Joliette County. In 1891, he married Marie-Paméla Hénault. Richard articled as a notary, was qualified to practise in 1898 and set up practice at Saint-Liguori and later L'Épiphanie. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the House of Commons in 1917. He served as secretary-treasurer for L'Épiphanie from 1907 to 1913 and in 1921. He died in Montreal at the age of 70.
Saint-Liguori is a parish municipality in the Montcalm Regional County Municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada.
Canada East was the northeastern portion of the United Province of Canada. Lord Durham's Report investigating the causes of the Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions recommended merging those two colonies. The new colony, known as the Province of Canada was created by the Act of Union 1840 passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having effect in 1841. For administrative purposes, the new Province was subdivided into Canada West and Canada East. The former name of "Lower Canada" came back into official use in 1849, and as of the Canadian Confederation of 1867, it formed the newly created province of Quebec.
L'Épiphanie is a town in Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada. It has about 4,000 inhabitants and was 150 years old in 2004. Its most famous resident is Ghyslain Dufresne, the guitarist from comic duo Crampe en masse.
