Édouard-André Barnard

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Édouard-André Barnard, (30 September 1835 – 19 August 1898), was a Lower Canada born militia officer. He was trained as a lawyer, generally well educated and, through family circumstances, a farmer for some time at the family property in Trois-Rivières. His father was Edward Barnard, a politician from Trois-Rivières.

Barnard eventually gravitated toward a career in the militia. By 1867, now a major, he offered his services to Bishop Ignace Bourget and put together a force to assist Pope Pius IX in defending against attacks of the papal State by Giuseppe Garibaldi. This was quite successful but many questioned his motives and he soon returned to farming.