Jean-Olivier Chénier

Jean-Olivier Chénier (December 9, 1806–December 14, 1837) was a physician in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec). Born in Lachine (or maybe Montreal). [ [http://www.memoireduquebec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ch%C3%A9nier_%28Jean-Olivier%29. "Chénier (Jean-Olivier)"] at "La Mémoire du Québec"] During the Lower Canada Rebellion, he commanded the Patriote forces in the Battle of Saint-Eustache. Trapped with his men in a church by the British troops who set flames to the building, he was killed while attempting to escape through a windows. He died to shouts of "Remember Weir!", a reference to George Weir, a British spy executed by the Patriotes. ["The Black Book of English Canada" by Normand Lester, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 2002, p.85.] After pillaging of the village, the British mutilated Chénier's corpse to scare and humiliate his Patriote supporters:

Chénier Street in Montreal is named for him, as is the Jean-Olivier-Chénier Section of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal. The Chénier Cell of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), responsible for the assassination of Pierre Laporte, was also named for him.

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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3315 Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]

ee also

*Patriote movement
*Quebec nationalism
*Quebec independence movement
*History of Quebec
*Timeline of Quebec history