Pierre Weilbrenner (January 17, 1771 – August 7, 1840) was a land surveyor, merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Kent in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808.
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is called a land surveyor. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish maps and boundaries for ownership, locations, such as building corners or the surface location of subsurface features, or other purposes required by government or civil law, such as property sales.
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 Boucherville, the son of Pierre Weilbrenner, a merchant of German descent, and Susanne Tougas dit Laviolette. In 1789, he married Marie-Louise Richard. Weilbrenner received his commission as a surveyor in 1801. He was a merchant in Boucherville. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1808. Weilbrenner was a captain in the militia during the War of 1812, later reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1820, Weilbrenner was named a justice of the peace and, in 1826, became a commissioner for the Court of Minor Pleas. He died in Boucherville at the age of 69.
Boucherville is a city in the Montérégie region in Quebec, Canada. It is a suburb of Montreal on the South shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps, Lake Constance and the High Rhine to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.
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.
