- Pascal Taché
Pascal Taché, (
b August 30 ,1757 –d June 5 ,1830 ), was the son ofJean Taché , a successfulmerchant and trader and thepatriarch of this importantCanadian family.He was born at the town of Quebec in 1757. In 1785, Pascal married the co-seigneur at Kamouraska. Five years later he received his mother-in-law's share of the
seigneury . Pascal managed this seigneury through a period of good expansion as well as exercising his commission as a justice of the peace. He also had a brief foray intopolitics serving as an elected member of the House of Assembly ofLower Canada for Cornwallis district; he was elected in a 1798 by-election held after the death of the previously elected member.Pascal's only son, Paschal Taché, inherited his mothers share of the seigneury upon her death in 1813. Father and son co-administered the properties until Pascal's death at Kamouraska in 1830.
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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3154 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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