- Louis Massue
Louis Massue (
April 4 1786 –July 4 1869 ) was a businessman and political figure inCanada East .He was born Louis-Joseph Massue in Varennes in 1786, the son of the co-seigneur of Varennes. He became a prosperous merchant in the import and dry goods trade at
Quebec City . In 1818, he was named to the board of governors for theQuebec Bank . Massue helped found the Quebec Fire Insurance Company and was president of the Canadian Fire Insurance Company. In 1840, he retired from business. Massue served on the city council for Quebec from 1841 to 1846. He did not support theLower Canada Rebellion but also opposed the Union of Upper andLower Canada that followed. In 1843, he was named to theLegislative Council of the Province of Canada ; he resigned in 1851 to become customs inspector at the port of Quebec. He suffered a series of financial losses around 1849, including personal liability as a director of the Quebec Bank for the failure of a merchant who owed money to the bank, which forced the sale of Massue's extensive property holdings.He died at Quebec City in 1869.
His nephew,
Louis Huet Massue , later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4571 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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