- Joseph Le Vasseur Borgia
Joseph Le Vasseur Borgia (
January 6 1773 –June 28 1839 ) was a lawyer, newspaper owner and political figure inLower Canada .He was born at Quebec in 1773, the son of a blacksmith, and studied at the
Petit Séminaire de Québec . He articled as a lawyer, qualified to practice in 1800 and set up practice at Quebec. Le Vasseur Borgia helped found "Le Canadien " in 1806. In 1808, he was elected to theLegislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Cornwallis, representing it until 1820 when he was defeated, and then again from 1824 to 1830. For his association with "Le Canadien", he was removed from his post in the militia in 1808 but he was named a militia captain in 1812 by GovernorGeorge Prevost .He died at Quebec City in 1839 and was buried in the Cimetière des Picotés there. Le Vasseur Borgia had one son, Narcisse-Charles, who predeceased his father in 1834.
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3501 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/JosephLeVasseur-Borgia-HistoireduQuebec.htm L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec]
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