Preceded by Elzear Bedard Role Canadian Politician Monarch Victoria | Children Adolphe-Philippe Caron Name Rene-Edouard Caron | |
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Premier Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Gedeon Ouimet
Charles Boucher de Boucherville Preceded by Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau Born 21 October 1800
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Lower Canada ( 1800-10-21 ) Died December 13, 1876, Quebec City, Canada Spouse Marie-Venerande-Josephine Deblois (m. 1828) | ||
Governor General The Earl of Dufferin Succeeded by George Okill Stuart, Jr. | ||
René-Édouard Caron (21 October 1800 – 13 December 1876) was a Canadian politician, judge, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Born in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada, the son of Augustin Caron, a farmer, and Elizabeth Lessard, he studied at a Quebec seminary, the Petit Séminaire of Quebec, and studied law in André-Rémi Hamel’s office was called to the Quebec Bar in 1826. In 1828, he married Marie-Vénérande-Joséphine, the daughter of Joseph Deblois and Marie-Vénérande Ranvoyzé.
In 1833, he was elected as a municipal representative for the Palais district of Quebec City. In 1834, he was elected mayor by the city councillors and served until 1836. He was mayor again from 1840 to 1846. He was mayor when cholera broke out in 1834 and when a fire nearly destroyed the city in 1845.
In 1834, he was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for the riding of Upper Town of Quebec. In 1841, he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. He was the Speaker from 1843 to 1847 and again from 1848 to 1853. From 1844 to 1853, he was also in a law partnership with Louis de Gonzague Baillairgé. In 1853, he was appointed Judge of the Court of Appeal, and in 1855 of the Court of the Queen's Bench. In 1859, he took part in the codification of the civil laws. He remained a judge until 1873 when he was appointed the second Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. He served until his death in December 1876. He is buried in Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont.
Family
He married Josephine de Blois, daughter of Germain de Blois, of Quebec, on 11 September 1828. She died 25 March 1880, and was buried in Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont alongside her husband. The couple`s son Adolphe-Philippe later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons and cabinet minister. Their daughter Corine married Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, who became chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. Their daughter Marie-Joséphine married Jean-Thomas Taschereau, later a judge in the Supreme Court of Canada, and was the mother of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, a premier of Quebec.