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Louis-Joseph Papineau (French pronunciation: [lwi ʒozɛf papino]; October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation.
Thomas Storrow Brown, "Brief sketch of the life and times of the late Hon. Louis-Joseph Papineau," in New Dominion Monthly, 1872, January 1872, 20 pages Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan . " A Biographical Sketch of the Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada ," in Sentinel , Saratoga Springs, 1838
Louis-Joseph Papineau (French pronunciation: [lwi ʒozɛf papino]; January 3, 1861 – April 24, 1932) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1908 federal election as the Liberal MP for Beauharnois , Quebec .
The rebellion had been preceded by nearly three decades of efforts at political reform in Lower Canada, [2] led from the early 1800s by James Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau, who formed the Parti patriote and sought accountability from the elected general assembly and the appointed governor of the colony.
A strong sense of nationalism sprung up among the francophones living in Lower Canada. The nationalists were led by Louis-Joseph Papineau, who was a part of what would later be known as the Patriot Party. One of its biggest demands was to determine how the colony's revenue would be spent.
It was designed primarily to commemorate Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871), the man who was to become a leading figure in Canadian politics during the 19th century, as one of the first French-Canadian nationalist leaders. The sumptuous house was built after Louis-Joseph Papineau returned from political exile in Europe, during the late 1830s to ...
In 1937, exactly one century after the Rebellion, the names of William Mackenzie and Louis-Joseph Papineau were applied to the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion or the Mac-Paps, a battalion of officially unrecognised Canadian volunteers who fought on the Republican side in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. In memory of their heritage, the group ...
It saw the speeches of the likes of Louis-Joseph Papineau and Wolfred Nelson. Papineau advocated pursuing the constitutional struggle through economic boycotts of British products while Nelson and Doctor Cyrille Côté supported an armed uprising. "I claim the time has come to melt our spoons to make bullets", thundered Nelson.