Jean Boudreau (1748 – August 31, 1827) was a political figure in Lower Canada.
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.
He was born in Acadia, probably at Port Royal, in 1748, the son of Charles Boudrot, a descendant of one of the first settlers at Port Royal. Jean and his parents escaped the Great Upheaval in 1755 and travelled to Quebec City via New Brunswick in 1757. Around 1764, the family settled at Deschambault, where his older sister had married the seigneur Louis Fleury de la Gorgendière. Boudreau became a navigator for ships travelling the Saint Lawrence River. In 1792, he was elected to represent Hampshire in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. He served as a lieutenant in the local militia during the War of 1812.
Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Norridgewock on the Kennebec River and Castine at the end of the Penobscot River were the southernmost settlements of Acadia. The actual specification by the French government for the territory refers to lands bordering the Atlantic coast, roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels. Later, the territory was divided into the British colonies that became Canadian provinces and American states. The population of Acadia included members of the Wabanaki Confederacy and descendants of emigrants from France. The two communities intermarried, which resulted in a significant portion of the population of Acadia being Métis.
Quebec City, officially Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. The city had a population estimate of 531,902 in July 2016, and the metropolitan area had a population of 800,296 in July 2016, making it the second largest city in Quebec after Montreal, and the seventh largest metropolitan area and eleventh largest city in the country.
New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. According to the Constitution of Canada, New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and a third francophones. One third of the overall population describe themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.
His son Jean married Marie-Josephte, the sister of Louis-Michel Viger.
Louis-Michel Viger was a Quebec lawyer, businessman, seigneur and political figure.
He died at Deschambault in 1827.
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