Pierre Brehaut (June 7, 1764 – May 2, 1817) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Quebec County in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1814 to 1817. He was also known as Peter Brehaut.
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 Province of Quebec and the Labrador region of the current 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 Guernsey, the son of Pierre Brehaut and Marie Todevin, and came to Quebec City around 1788. He found work there as a cooper for Louis Dunière, later going into business on his own. In 1792, he married Thérèse Bellenoy. In 1800, Brehaut purchased river-front property from Dunière which included a wharf and warehouses; he established a wholesale business, trading mainly in grain, wine and spirits. In 1816, he purchased the Cape Diamond Brewery from Thomas Dunn. Brehaut died in office at Quebec City at the age of 52.
Guernsey is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. It lies roughly north of Saint-Malo and to the west of Jersey and the Cotentin Peninsula. With several smaller nearby islands, it forms a jurisdiction within the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. The jurisdiction is made up of ten parishes on the island of Guernsey, three other inhabited islands, and many small islets and rocks.
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.
A cooper is a person trained to make wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs and other staved containers from timber that was usually heated or steamed to make it pliable. Journeymen coopers also traditionally made wooden implements, such as rakes and wooden-bladed shovels. In addition to wood, other materials, such as iron, were used in the manufacturing process.
