Séraphin Bouc (October 27, 1788 – July 29, 1837) was a political figure, lieutenant, and farmer in Lower Canada. He represented Terrebonne in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1834 until his death in 1837.
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 Lachenaie, the son of Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc and Archange Lepage. He operated a farm at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines. Bouc was a lieutenant in the militia and served during the War of 1812. In 1813, he married Françoise Dalcourt. Bouc died in office at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines at the age of 48.
Lachenaie was an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Rivière des Mille-Îles. It is now part of the city of Terrebonne, and is in the Regional County Municipality of Les Moulins. In 2001, the population was 21,709.
Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, 40 km northwest of the city of Montreal in the regional county of Laurentides more precisely in the district of Thérèse-De Blainville. Its population was 14,990 by the census of 2014.
