Background
He was born in Saint-Pie, Canada East, the son of Jérôme Chicoine and Dorothée Deslandes, dit Champigny, and was adopted by his godfather Joseph Charbonneau at the age of three.
He was born in Saint-Pie, Canada East, the son of Jérôme Chicoine and Dorothée Deslandes, dit Champigny, and was adopted by his godfather Joseph Charbonneau at the age of three.
Chicoyne was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe.
He represented Wolfe in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1892 to 1904 as a Conservative. He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1868 and set up practice in Saint-Hyacinthe. In 1872, he left the practice of law to become an immigration agent for Quebec.
Chicoyne contributed to the Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe and L"Opinion publique.
He established the newspaper Louisiana Colonisation in Sherbrooke in 1886 and then was the owner and editor of the Pionnier de Sherbrooke from 1888 to 1901. He served on the municipal council for Sherbrooke and was mayor from 1890 to 1892.
Chicoyne was also mayor of Louisiana Patrie and Mégantic. In the Quebec assembly, he developed the Quebec Agricultural Syndicates’ Acting which allowed farmers to set up cooperative associations, leading to the development of caisses populaires.
Chicoyne died in Saint-Hyacinthe at the age of 66.
He published Causeries agricoles: une visite chez le capitaine Bachelor in 1874 under the pen name Jean Bellevue.
