Resigned 1878 Name Louis-Amable Jette | Nationality Canadian Monarch VictoriaEdward VII | |
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Governor General The Earl of AberdeenThe Earl of MintoThe Earl Grey Premier Felix-Gabriel MarchandSimon-Napoleon ParentLomer Gouin Died May 5, 1920, Quebec City, Canada | ||
Preceded by George-Etienne Cartier | ||
Sir Louis-Amable Jetté, KCMG ([lwi amabl ʒɛte]; 15 January 1836 – 5 May 1920) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, professor, and the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. He was born in L'Assomption, Lower Canada (now Quebec) in 1836.
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In 1872, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Montreal East. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1874.
Jetté was chief justice of the Court of King’s Bench.
From 1898 to 1908 he was the lieutenant governor of Quebec. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) during the visit to Quebec of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901.
Family
His wife, Lady Jette, was the daughter of Rodolphe Laflamme. She was born in Montreal, Quebec March 27, 1841. The couple married, in 1862 and lived at `Spencerwood` Quebec. She volunteered with various benevolent and religious institutions connected with the Church of Rome in Canada. She wrote a biography of Saint Marie-Marguerite d'Youville who founded the religious order the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal.
Legacy
Mount Jetté in British Columbia, just inside the junction of the BC, Alaska and Yukon borders at the province's extreme northwest, is named for him. Jetté was a member of the Canadian Boundary Tribunal leading to the resolution of the Alaska Boundary Dispute.