Jacques Archambault was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

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. He represented Leinster in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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 from 1810 to 1814.

He was born in Saint-Pierre-du-Portage

L'Assomption, Quebec

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, the son of Pierre Archambault and Marie-Josephte Gauthier. Archambault settled on a farm in Saint-Roch in 1783. In the same year, he married Véronique Debussat, dit Saint-Germain. In 1805, he was named a justice of the peace

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 for Montreal district. He served as a captain in the militia during the War of 1812

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. Archambault also served on the school board for Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan and as a commissioner for the summary trial of minor causes. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1814.