Nationality Canadian Grandparents Joseph Papineau Parents Louis-Joseph Papineau | Died 1909, Montebello, Canada Name Amedee Papineau | |
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Other names Louis Joseph Amedee PAPINEAU Occupation Writer, political and lawyer Known for Participation in Rebellions of 1837, founder of the Societe des Fils de la Liberte Role Louis-Joseph Papineau\'s son | ||
Louis-Joseph-Amédée Papineau, or Amédée Papineau (1819-1903) was a writer and Québecois patriot. and present at the meeting at which the Société des Fils de la Liberté was founded. He was the eldest son of Louis-Joseph Papineau, a leader in the Rebellion of 1837 in Lower Canada, and was involved in the rebellion himself. His father was forced to flee, and Amédée followed him to Saratoga Springs, New York. Between 1837 and 1842, he drew up the first four books of his personal journal as Journal d'un Fils de la Liberté in which he chronicled the events of the 1837 rebellion and his life in exile.[1]
In 1846 Amédée married Mary Eleanor Westcott in Saratoga Springs. After her decease in 1890, he converted from Catholicism to Presbyterianism, and in 1896 married Martha Jane Iona. She was 25. Both marriages produced children.
He is also the uncle of the journalist Henri Bourassa, the founder of the newspaper Le Devoir.