Joseph Remi Valliere de St. Real (1787-1847) First French-Canadian to receive an important political appointment under the British regime.
The son of a blacksmith, he became one of the best educated men of his day in Canada. Attended the Quebec Seminary studied law, and served as a British officer in the War of 1812. A political rival of Louis Papineau, leader of the Canadian rebellion of 1837-38, St. Real served as speaker of the provincial parliament, 1823-25, and chief justice of the Queen's Bench for the district of Montreal, 1842-47. He was named to the executive council of Lower Canada by the Earl of Durham in 1838, but that same year was suspended from the bench for granting a writ of habeas corpus to a prisoner of the rebellion (two other judges had been suspended previously for the same thing).
He is believed to have received his degrees in the lodge known as Les Freres du Canada, under warrant from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lower Canada (Ancients). He was senior grand warden of the provincial grand lodge in 1820; junior grand warden of the District Grand Lodge of Quebec and Three Rivers in 1821, and senior grand warden of the same in 1822. He was buried from the Roman Catholic church, Sacre Nom de Marie in Montreal.)
He is included in a book written about Freemasons: William R. Denslow's "10,000 Famous Freemasons."
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_4_Q_to_Z.htm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13029897/2-Faces-Freemasonry-John-Daniel-Compelete
To view his place in our "Large Family Tree" click here.
The son of a blacksmith, he became one of the best educated men of his day in Canada. Attended the Quebec Seminary studied law, and served as a British officer in the War of 1812. A political rival of Louis Papineau, leader of the Canadian rebellion of 1837-38, St. Real served as speaker of the provincial parliament, 1823-25, and chief justice of the Queen's Bench for the district of Montreal, 1842-47. He was named to the executive council of Lower Canada by the Earl of Durham in 1838, but that same year was suspended from the bench for granting a writ of habeas corpus to a prisoner of the rebellion (two other judges had been suspended previously for the same thing).
He is believed to have received his degrees in the lodge known as Les Freres du Canada, under warrant from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lower Canada (Ancients). He was senior grand warden of the provincial grand lodge in 1820; junior grand warden of the District Grand Lodge of Quebec and Three Rivers in 1821, and senior grand warden of the same in 1822. He was buried from the Roman Catholic church, Sacre Nom de Marie in Montreal.)
He is included in a book written about Freemasons: William R. Denslow's "10,000 Famous Freemasons."
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_4_Q_to_Z.htm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13029897/2-Faces-Freemasonry-John-Daniel-Compelete
To view his place in our "Large Family Tree" click here.