- Robert Christie
Robert Christie (
January 20 1787 -October 13 1856 ) was a lawyer, journalist, historian and political figure inLower Canada andCanada East .He was born in
Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1787, the son of a Scottish immigrant. He attended King's College in Windsor and went to Quebec in 1805. He became an attorney in 1810 and served in the militia during theWar of 1812 . In 1816, he became the editor for the "Quebec Telegraph", a weekly bilingual newspaper. In 1827, he was elected to theLegislative Assembly of Lower Canada representing Gaspé and was appointed chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions. He came into conflict with the assembly for removing magistrates who opposed the governor and, in 1829, he was expelled from the Legislative Assembly. However, the constituents of Gaspé continued to vote him back in and he was expelled four more times. The government in Britain supported Christie.Later, Christie attempted to start a movement in Gaspé to separate from Lower Canada and join the province of
New Brunswick . This alienated the voters of the region and he was not re-elected in 1833.In 1841, however, he was elected to the
1st Parliament of the Province of Canada , again representing Gaspé, and he continue to represent the region until 1854. He introduced the motion in 1842 to move the capital from Kingston toMontreal . He edited the newspaper "Quebec Mercury" from 1848 to 1850.He died at
Quebec City in 1856.Works
* "Memoirs Of The Administration of the Colonial Government Of Lower-Canada, By Sir James Henry Craig, And Sir George Prevost" published in 1818
* "A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada", Quebec City: T. Cary/R. Montreal: Worthington, 1848-1855 (Internet Archive: [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Christie%2C%20Robert%22 All 6 volumes] )External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3831 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/christiemem.html Photographs of plaque by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board]
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