Louis Brodeur (ca 1775 – July 4, 1860) was a political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Richelieu in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808. His name also appears as Louis Le Brodeur.
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 the son of Alexandre Le Brodeur and Angélique Lussie and may have been born at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu. In 1808, he married Marie-Josephte Plamondon. Brodeur was a lieutenant in the militia during the War of 1812. He was arrested in 1837 for distributing ammunition to rebels and released in June the following year. Brodeur died at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu.
Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,643.
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theater of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right.
