Background
Louis-Joseph Papineau was born on October 7, 1786 in Montreal, Quebec. He was the eldest of eight children. His father, Joseph Papineau, was a royal notary and member of the house of Assembly of Lower Canada.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau was born on October 7, 1786 in Montreal, Quebec. He was the eldest of eight children. His father, Joseph Papineau, was a royal notary and member of the house of Assembly of Lower Canada.
Papineau was educated at the Seminary of Quebec, where he developed his gift of declamatory and persuasive oratory.
In 1809 Papineau was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for the country of Kent. In 1810 he was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada. In that year he went to England to protest on behalf of the French Canadians against the projected union of Upper and Lower Canada, a mission in which he was successful. In 1814 he won the right to represent the Riding of Montreal West in the Assembly. He was appointed Speaker of the Assembly in 1815 and occupied that important office almost continuously until 1837.
Papineau quickly became the recognized leader of the patriotes, the French-Canadian reformers, and his political strength was such that in 1820 the governor, Lord Dalhousie, sought to gain his support by offering Papineau a seat on the Executive Council which he accepted and then resigned almost immediately when he found that he could not influence policy. In 1827 Lord Dalhousie refused to confirm Papineau’s appointment to the speakership, and resigned his governorship when the House of Assembly supported Papineau.
His hostility to the British government in Canada, whose measures he considered unfair to the French Canadians, inflamed some of his followers, the Patriotes, to open rebellion in 1837. Shortly afterward a rebellion incited by William Lyon Mackenzie broke out in Upper Canada (Ontario). Papineau took no active part in the uprisings but fled to the United States, where he sought assistance for the Canadian colonial cause. Failing in his effort, he went to France. He received full amnesty in 1844 and returned to Canada in 1845. He reentered politics and from 1848 to 1854 he again sat in the Canadian Legislative Assembly, but he never regained his former influence.
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On April 29, 1818 Papineau married Julie Bruneau. They had four children: Amédée, Lactance, Ézilda, and Azélie.