- Jacques Labrie
Jacques Labrie (
January 4 1784 –October 26 1831 ) was a physician and political figure inLower Canada .He was born at Saint-Charles in 1784, the son of farmer Jacques Nau, dit Labry, and studied at the
Petit Séminaire de Québec . He studied medicine with François Blanchet and completed his medical training atEdinburgh inScotland . Labrie was also editor for the "Courier de Québec " from 1806 to 1808. He set up practice first atMontreal and then at Saint-Eustache. In 1809, he married Marie-Marguerite Gagnier, the daughter of the local notary at Saint-Eustache. Labrie served as surgeon for the militia during theWar of 1812 . He founded two schools, one for girls and one for boys, in his parish. In 1827, he was elected to theLegislative Assembly of Lower Canada for York, as a supporter of theparti patriote . He was elected for the new riding of Deux-Montagnes in 1830 after York was split up.He died of
pneumonia at Saint-Eustache in 1831 while still in office.Labrie had written but not completed a history of Canada, which was deposited for safe-keeping in the library of
Jean-Joseph Girouard . The manuscript was destroyed by fire during theLower Canada Rebellion .His daughter Zéphirine married
Jean-Olivier Chénier , a leader of the Patriotes.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2957 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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