Nérée Tétreau
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Nérée Tétreau was a notary
Civil law notary
Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State...

, land owner and political figure in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. He represented Ottawa County
Ottawa (County of)
Ottawa was a federal and provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, which was represented in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1830 to 1867, in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1892, and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to at least 1919.The...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec
Legislative Assembly of Quebec
The Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature until 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, the upper house of the legislature, the Legislative Council, was abolished...

 from 1892 to 1897 as a Conservative.

He was born in Saint-Damase
Saint-Damase, Quebec
Saint-Damase, Quebec may refer to:*Saint-Damase, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, in La Matapédia Regional County Municipality*Saint-Damase, Montérégie, Quebec, in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality...

, Canada East
Canada East
Canada East was the eastern portion of the United Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec, and was primarily a French-speaking region....

, the son of Antoine Tétreau and Adélaïde Ayet, dit Malo. Tétreau was educated there, at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe and the Séminaire de Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir. He qualified to practise as a notary in 1866 and set up practice in Hull, Quebec
Hull, Quebec
Hull is the central and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa. As part of the Canadian National Capital Region, it contains offices for twenty thousand...

. In 1868, he married Adèle Leduc. Tétreau was secretary-treasurer for the Hull school board from 1866 to 1868 and for the town of Hull from 1870 to 1875. He died in Hull at the age of 68.

The Val-Tétreau neighbourhood and Val-Tétreau District
Val-Tétreau District
The Val-Tétreau District is a municipal district in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. It is represented on Gatineau City Council by Alain Pilon.The district is located in the Hull sector of the city...

 of Gatineau
Gatineau
Gatineau is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province. It is located on the northern banks of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario, and together they form Canada's National Capital Region. Ottawa and Gatineau comprise a single Census...

were named in his honour.
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