René-Édouard Caron

René-Édouard Caron
Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, Montmorency
In office
July 1832 – February 1836
2nd Mayor of Quebec City
In office
31 March 1834 – 9 April 1836
In office
15 August 1840 – 9 February 1846
Preceded by Elzéar Bédard
Succeeded by George Okill Stuart, Jr.
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, Upper Town of Quebec
In office
1834 – 7 March 1836
Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada
In office
9 June 1841 – 16 March 1857
2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
In office
11 February 1873 – 13 December 1876
Monarch Victoria
Governor General The Earl of Dufferin
Premier Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Gédéon Ouimet
Charles Boucher de Boucherville
Preceded by Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
Succeeded by Luc LeTellier de Saint-Just
Personal details
Born (1800-10-21)21 October 1800
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada
Died 13 December 1876(1876-12-13) (aged 76)
Quebec City (Spencer Wood), Quebec
Spouse(s) Marie-Vénérande-Joséphine Deblois (m. September 1828)

René-Édouard Caron (21 October 1800 – 13 December 1876) was a Canadian politician, judge, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

Born in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada, the son of Augustin Caron, a farmer, and Elizabeth Lessard,[1] he studied at a Quebec seminary, the Petit Séminaire of Quebec, and studied law in André-Rémi Hamel’s office was called to the Quebec Bar in 1826.[2] In 1828, he married Marie-Vénérande-Joséphine, the daughter of Joseph Deblois and Marie-Vénérande Ranvoyzé.

In 1833, he was elected as a municipal representative for the Palais district of Quebec City. In 1834, he was elected mayor by the city councillors and served until 1836. He was mayor again from 1840 to 1846. He was mayor when cholera broke out in 1834 and when a fire nearly destroyed the city in 1845.

In 1834, he was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for the riding of Upper Town of Quebec. In 1841, he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. He was the Speaker from 1843 to 1847 and again from 1848 to 1853. From 1844 to 1853, he was also in a law partnership with Louis de Gonzague Baillairgé. In 1853, he was appointed Judge of the Court of Appeal, and in 1855 of the Court of the Queen's Bench. In 1859, he took part in the codification of the civil laws. He remained a judge until 1873 when he was appointed the second Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. He served until his death in December 1876. He is buried in Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont.

Family

He married Josephine de Blois, daughter of Germain de Blois, of Quebec, on 11 September 1828. She died 25 March 1880, and was buried in Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont alongside her husband.[3] The couple`s son Adolphe-Philippe later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons and cabinet minister. Their daughter Corine married Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, who became chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. Their daughter Marie-Joséphine married Jean-Thomas Taschereau, later a judge in the Supreme Court of Canada, and was the mother of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, a premier of Quebec.

Descendants
  • Augustin Caron (1778–1862), m. Elizabeth Lessard (1774–1823)
    • René-Édouard Caron (1800–1876), m. Marie-Vénérande-Joséphine de Blois (1829–1886)

References

  1. ↑ "René-Édouard Caron". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
  2. ↑  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Reneé-Edouard Caron". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  3. ↑ Henry James Morgan (1903). Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada. I. Toronto: William Briggs. p. 45.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "article name needed". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

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