- Joseph-Isidore Bédard
Joseph-Isidore Bédard (
January 9 1806 –April 14 1833 ) was a lawyer and political figure inLower Canada .He was born in
Quebec City in 1806, the son ofPierre-Stanislas Bédard , and studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He articled in law withGeorges-Barthélemi Faribault and was called to the bar in 1829. He was elected to theLegislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Saguenay in 1830. He opposed an elected legislative council and voted against the expulsion ofRobert Christie from the assembly.Bédard wrote the words to the patriotic song "Sol canadien! Terre chérie!", first published in the "Quebec Gazette".
Bédard travelled to
England withDenis-Benjamin Viger in 1831. In September 1832, when he was about to return to Lower Canada, he suffered a haemorrhage of the lungs. He died inParis in 1833 and was buried in the cemetery atMontmartre .His brother Elzéar was a judge and also served in the legislative assembly.
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2780 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/b/bedaji.htm Biography from Assemblée nationale du Québec (french)]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/f/toc.aspx?id=1761 "Pierre Bédard et ses fils", N-E Dionne (1909)]
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