Pierre Bureau

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Pierre Bureau (October 9, 1771 – June 6, 1836) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.

He was born in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec in 1771. Bureau operated an inn for travellers at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade and a ferry service across the Sainte-Anne River. Around 1811, he moved to Trois-Rivières, where he became a merchant. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Canada for Saint-Maurice in an 1819 by-election and represented that region until his death at Trois-Rivières in 1836. He supported an elected Legisliative Council and tended to support the Parti canadien. Bureau voted in support of the Ninety-Two Resolutions.^[1]

His grandsons, Antoine-Aimé Dorion and Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion, both became members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. Antoine-Aimé was also a lawyer, judge and Canadian cabinet minister; Jean-Baptiste-Éric was a journalist.

References

"Pierre Bureau". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005. Check date values in: |date= (help)
"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

↑ Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, from the 7th January to the 18th March, 1834 p. 337

Political offices
Preceded by Louis Gugy, Tory Étienne Mayrand, Tory	MLA, District of Saint-Maurice with Étienne Mayrand, Tory Louis Picotte, Parti Canadien Charles Caron, Parti Canadien Valère Guillet, Parti Canadien 1819–1836	Succeeded by Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie, Patriote François Lesieur Desaulniers, Patriote

Persondata
Name	Bureau, Pierre
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	October 9, 1771
Place of birth
Date of death	June 6, 1836
Place of death

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