- Louis Roy Portelance
Louis Roy Portelance (
October 16 1764 –March 2 1838 ) was a businessman and political figure inLower Canada .He was born at Pointe-Claire in 1764, the son of a farmer, and studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël. He then entered the
fur trade as a voyageur. In 1791, Portelance married his cousin Marie-Josephte, daughter of François Périnault and widow of silversmithJacques Varin . Soon afterwards, Portelance entered the lumber trade, supplying boards and planks for construction inMontreal . He was elected to represent Montreal County in 1804 and represented it until 1814. In 1809, he married Louise, the daughter of merchant Jacques Languedoc and sister ofFrançois Languedoc , who later became a member of the legislative assembly. Portelance was elected to represent Montreal East in 1816. He generally supported theparti canadien in the assembly. He retired from the lumber business around 1820. He helped foundLa Banque du Peuple in 1837.He died at Kamouraska in Lower Canada in 1838.
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3642 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/q-r/roypl.htm Biography from Assemblée nationale du Québec (french)]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.