Joseph Robitaille (November 15, 1766 – April 29, 1854) was a miller, farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Cornwallis in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1808 to 1830, as a supporter of the Parti canadien and later the Parti patriote.
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.
The Parti canadien or Parti patriote was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale merchants, including François Blanchet, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, John Neilson, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, James Stuart, Louis Bourdages, Denis-Benjamin Viger, Daniel Tracey, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Andrew Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau.
He was born in Ancienne-Lorette, the son of Romain Robitaille and Marie-Josephte Drolet. Robitaille lived in the Saint-Louis parish of Kamouraska, later moving to Saint-Pascal. He was married twice: first to Marie-Rosalie Gagnon in 1799 and then later to Élisabeth Falardeau. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1830. Robitaille died at Saint-Pascal at the age of 87.
Kamouraska is a municipality on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Regional County Municipality of Kamouraska. It has been named one of the top 20 most beautiful villages in the province of Quebec, and the municipality is a member of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec Association.
Saint-Pascal is a city in Kamouraska Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec.
