Louis Legendre (Lower Canada politician)

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Louis Legendre (February 5, 1779 – December 12, 1860) was a land surveyor and politician in Lower Canada. He represented Buckinghamshire in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1808 to 1809. His name also appears as Louis Le Gendre.

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 Sainte-Croix-de-Lotbinière, the son of François Legendre and Marie-Joseph Lemay. Legendre obtained his commission as surveyor in 1800. He settled in Saint-Louis parish at Lotbinière. Legendre did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1809. He was named magistrate for Quebec district in 1815. In the same year, he married Julie Hamelin. Legendre served as captain in the militia, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1827. In 1838, he was named a commissioner for the summary trial of minor causes. Legendre died in Deschaillons at the age of 81.

Sainte-Croix is a municipality in and the seat of the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,433 as of 2009. The new constitution dates from 2001, after the amalgamation of the parish and the village of Sainte-Croix.

Lotbinière, Quebec Municipality in Quebec, Canada

Lotbinière is a municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 887 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after the seigneurie of which it was part. Bordered in the northwest by the Saint Lawrence River, Lotbinière is part of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec network.

His older brother François Legendre also served as a member of the assembly.

François Legendre was a surveyor, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. His name sometimes appears as François d'Assise; his surname also appears as Le Gendre.

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References

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

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