Rémi-Séraphin Bourdages was a physician and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

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. He represented Rouville in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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 from 1830 to 1832.

He was born Jean-David Bourdages in Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis, Quebec

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, the son of Louis Bourdages

Louis Bourdages

Louis Bourdages was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born Louis-Marie Bourdages in Jeune-Lorette, Quebec in 1764, the son of Raymond Bourdages, an Acadian doctor and merchant. Bourdages studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he met Pierre-Stanislas Bédard...

 and Louise-Catherine Soupiran, and was educated at the Séminaire de Nicolet. Bourdages went on to study medicine in Quebec City

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 and at the University of New York

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. He was authorized to practise medicine in Lower Canada in 1818 and settled in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir

Marieville, Quebec

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. He served as justice of the peace

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 and was a member of the board of medical examiners for Montreal district. In 1832, he married Marguerite Franchère, the sister of Joseph

Joseph Franchère

Joseph Franchère was a political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Bedford in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1820 and from 1822 to 1824....

 and Timothée Franchère

Timothée Franchère

Timothée Franchère was a Quebec businessman and political figure.He was born around 1790. Franchère was a merchant at Saint-Mathias. He served in the local militia during the War of 1812 and became captain in 1821. He was appointed commissioner in charge of construction of the Chambly Canal in...

. Bourdages died in office in Saint-Denis at the age of 32.

His daughter Josephte married Joseph-Napoléon Poulin

Joseph-Napoléon Poulin

Joseph-Napoléon Poulin was a physician and political figure in Canada East.He was born Joseph Poulin in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir in Lower Canada in 1821 and practiced medicine and surgery there. In 1851, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Rouville; he was...

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