Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel

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Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel

Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel [ keˈnɛl ] (born February 7, 1785 in Montreal , † July 28, 1866 there ) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman.

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The son of the composer Joseph Quesnel graduated from the Collège de Montréal from 1796 to 1803 and then trained in law with Stephen Sewell . Around 1820 he opened a law firm on Rue Notre-Dame in Montreal. As a businessman, he also participated in his brother Jules Maurice's fur trade and in real estate trading .

In the British-American War in 1812 he took part as captain of the Chasseurs canadiennes , in 1830 he became a major in the 4th Battalion of Montreal . From 1820 to 1834 he was, first with Denis Benjamin , later with Louis-Michel Viger, representative of Kent County at the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. From 1829 to 1830 he was a member of the committee for the renewal of the judicial system.

After his rejection of Louis-Joseph Papineau's reform project of the Ninety-Two Resolutions , Quesnel resigned from the legislative assembly, but was appointed to the Executive Council in 1837 . In 1841 he became a representative of Montmorency in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada , where he was replaced in 1844 by Joseph-Édouard Cauchon . He then became a member of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning and was a member of the Legislative Council from 1848 until his death . Around 1848 Quesnel became director of the Banque du Peuple , as its president he was from 1959 to 1865. In 1860 he was elected President of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal .

Quesnel was the adoptive father of Charles-Joseph Coursol .

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