The Honourable Joseph Edouard Cauchon, PC (December 31, 1816 – February 23, 1885) was a prominent Quebec politician in the middle years of the nineteenth-century. Although he held a variety of portfolios at the federal, provincial and municipal levels, he never achieved his goal of becoming the Premier of Quebec. The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable ( or formerly The Honble) is a title of quality attached to the names of certain classes of persons. ... The Queens Privy Council for Canada is the ceremonial council of advisors to the Queen of Canada, whose members are appointed by her Governor General in Canada for life on the advice of the Prime Minister. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ... The Premier of Quebec (in French Premier ministre du Québec, sometimes literally translated to Prime Minister of Quebec) is the first minister for the Canadian province of Quebec. ...

Born to a well-established family of seigneurs, Cauchon received a classical education at the Petit Seminaire de Quebec from 1830 to 1839, and subsequently studied law. He was called to the bar in 1843, but never practiced. Instead he turned to journalism, working for Le Canadien from 1841 to 1842, and launching his own Le Journal de Quebec in December of the latter year. This paper was known for its sharp political wit, and generally supported Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's French Canadian Reformers during its early years. The seigneurial system was the semi-feudal system of noble privilege in France and its colonies. ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Le Canadien was a French language newspaper published in Lower Canada from November 13, 1806 to March 14, 1810. ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Le Journal de Québec is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Québec. ... Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. ...

Cauchon himself entered political life in 1844, winning election for the riding of Montmorency in the Province of Canada's legislature. He defeated a Mr. Taschereau by 475 votes to 147, and sat with Lafontaine's French Canadian group on the opposition benches for the next three years. 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Montmorency is the name of several places: Montmorency, in the Val-dOise département of France Montmorency, Victoria, in Australia Montmorency County, Michigan, in the United States Montmorency Township, Michigan, in the United States Montmorency Township, Illinois, in the United States Montmorency Falls, in Canada Montmorency was also the name... Note: for information about Canadas present-day provinces, see Provinces of Canada. ...

Lafontaine's party won a major victory in 1847, and Cauchon was re-elected by acclamation. He did not, however, join the cabinet of Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin. 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Robert Baldwin (12 May 1804 – 9 December 1858), Canadian statesman, was born at York (now Toronto). ...

Cauchon supported the union of Canada East and Canada West as a guarantor of rights for both regions, and sought to have the bilingual Augustin-Norbert Morin elected as speaker of the provincial legislature. When Francis Hincks replaced Lafontaine as Premier in 1851, Cauchon's position was one of ambivalence. He opposed Hincks's alliance with the Clear Grit faction (which he described as "socialist and anticatholic"), and turned down Hincks's offer to become assistant Provincial Secretary. While he did not abandon the Reform cause entirely, his newspapers's criticisms of the Hincks government weakened the ministry's position in Quebec. Canada East (French, Canada-Est) was the eastern portion of the Province of Canada. ... Canada West was the western portion of the Province of Canada. ... Augustin-Norbert Morin (October 13, 1803 – July 27, 1865) was a lawyer, judge and politician. ... The term Speaker is usually the title given to the presiding officer of a countrys lower house of parliament or congress (i. ... Categories: People stubs | 1807 births | 1885 deaths | Canadian Ministers of Finance | Members of the Canadian House of Commons | Premiers of the Province of Canada ... A premier is an executive official of government. ... Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ... Clear Grits were Upper Canadian reformers with support concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis_Hippolyte Lafontaines lack of radicalism. ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... The Provincial Secretary was a senior position in the executive councils of British North Americas colonial governments, and was retained by the Canadian provincial governments for at least a century after Canadian Confederation was proclaimed in 1867. ...

Cauchon was himself re-elected in 1851 and 1854, defeating one Mr. Glackemeyer by 883 votes to 529 on the latter occasion. His political position in 1854 was ambiguous, and he held some hopes of replacing Hincks as a coalitionist Premier when the overall results proved inconclusive. He abandoned this plan, however, to support the alliance of Allan Napier McNab's Conservatives with the French Canadian bloc (then led by Morin) and a part of Hinck's Reform group. In the year that followed, Cauchon supported the government's decisions to eliminate the seigneural system (over Louis-Joseph Papineau's objections) and secularize the clergy reserves. In 1855, he introduced a bill to make the Legislative Council elective; this was passed into law, and came into effect the following year. 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Sir Allan Napier MacNab (1798 - 1862) was a Canadian military and political leader. ... The name which emphasised a revitalised National Policy and links to Britain. ... Portrait of Louis-Joseph Papineau. ... Clergy reserves were tracts of land in Upper Canada and Lower Canada reserved for the support of Protestant clergy by the Constitutional Act of 1791 which established the two provinces. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A Legislative Council in British constitutional thought is the second-to-top tier of a government led by a Governor-General, Governor or a Lieutenant-Governor, inferior to an Executive Council and equal to or superior to a Legislative Assembly. ...

Later in 1855, Cauchon was appointed to the McNab-Etienne-Paschal Tache cabinet as Commissioner of Crown Lands. He resigned in April 1857, when his government refused to allocate funds for a railway on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Cauchon remained a member of the Parti Bleu, however, and was re-elected in the general election of 1857. Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché (1795-1865) was a Canadian doctor and politician. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Saint Lawrence River (French: fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Cauchon voted against his party on some occasions in 1858, and spoke out against its early support of Canadian Confederation. Nevertheless, he was appointed in 1861 as Minister of Public Works in the George-Etienne Cartier-Macdonald cabinet, and held this position until the Cartier-Macdonald government was defeated in the house the following year. Cauchon was returned by acclamation in the general election of 1861, and defeated a Mr. Tourangeau by 526 votes to 367 in 1863. 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Canadian Confederation, or the Confederation of Canada, was the process that ultimately brought together a union among the provinces, colonies and territories of British North America to form the Dominion of Canada, a Dominion of the British Empire, which today is a federal nation state simply known as Canada. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Sir George-Étienne Cartier (September 6, 1814 - May 20, 1873) was a French-Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation. ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

When the Conservatives returned to power in March 1864, Cauchon was again chosen as Public Works minister. He was forced to resign this position after the creation of a "Grand Coalition" ministry in August, though he continued to support the government from the back benches. Despite his previous opposition, he also emerged as a leading supporter of the confederation plan. In 1865, he published (in French and English) a work entitled The union of the provinces of British North America, which rejected his earlier opposition to the plan. 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ...

While retaining his seat in parliament, Cauchon also served as mayor of Quebec City from 1865 to 1867. It is difficult to determine what he accomplished, as he never published a report during this period. A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir (Gift of God shall make prosper) Area: 547. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

After Confederation was achieved in July 1867, Cauchon was called upon to become the first Premier of Quebec. He was unable to accomplish this task, however, as his plans to include an anglophone in cabinet broke down on the issue of educational funding for the province's Protestant minority. Cauchon opposed the creation of a Protestant Superintendency for the province, while all of his potential anglophone ministers supported it. Accordingly, Cauchon stood aside and Pierre Chauveau became the province's first Premier instead. Despite this setback, Cauchon was re-elected for Montmorency to both the federal and provincial parliaments later in the year. 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A premier is an executive official of government. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30, 1820 - April 4, 1890), born in Quebec City, was the first prime minister of the Canadian province of Quebec when it was created as a result of Canadian Confederation in 1867. ...

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Rejected in his bid to become Quebec Premier, Cauchon still sought higher office. In October 1867, he demanded that the Conservative government appoint him to the Canadian Senate, and allow him to be chosen as its first speaker. Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau was accordingly convinced to resign his Senate seat, and Cauchon took his place on November 2, 1867, becoming speaker three days later. His appointment was extremely unpopular with senators from both parties, and Cauchon subsequently identified himself as an Independent Conservative. The affair may have contributed to Cauchon's defeat at the hands of John Lemesurier in a bid for re-election as Quebec City's Mayor one month later. Despite the unpopularity of his appointment, Cauchon remained Speaker of the Senate until June 30, 1872 (though he stepped down on a temporary basis on two occasions, for eleven days in total). While in Ottawa he lived in Stadacona Hall in Sandy Hill. Image File history File links From the Canadian Illustrated News Title: The Hon. ... Image File history File links From the Canadian Illustrated News Title: The Hon. ... The Senate (French: Sénat) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, which also includes the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the House of Commons. ... Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau KCMG (October 20, 1808–September 14, 1894) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The High Commission of Brunei Darussalam in Canada is the high commission of Brunei Darussalam in Ottawa, Canada. ... Sandy Hill is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario located just east of downtown. ...

Cauchon was re-elected by acclamation to the Quebec assembly in 1871, and resigned his Senate seat in 1872 to run for the House of Commons again. This time running in Quebec Centre, he was opposed by an Anglophone Protestant named James Gibb Ross. The resulting election was divided on sectarian lines, and was extremely violent. Cauchon won by 964 votes to 694; he returned to parliament as an Independent Conservative, and was not specifically aligned with either party. 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, which also includes the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ...

In 1873, Cauchon wanted to replace N.F. Belleau as Quebec's Lieutenant-Governor, but was rejected by the Macdonald government due to his large number of enemies. He also wanted to become Quebec leader of the federal Conservative party after Cartier's death, but was too unpopular within the party. Following these rejections, he began to align himself with the opposition Liberals, joining the party when the Pacific Railway Scandal brought down Macdonald's government later in the year. Cauchon resigned his seat in the Quebec legislature in February 1874 when his "dual mandate" became illegal, and thereafter focused his attentions on federal advancement. 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas largest political party. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Cauchon's presence in the Liberal Party was a matter of convenience for both sides. Cauchon provided the Liberals with a liaison to various Catholic concerns in Quebec, and helped the party rebuild a provincial network. In return, Cauchon was appointed to cabinet as President of the Privy Council on December 7, 1875. Liberal Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie susbequently wanted to promote him to Minister of Justice, but was unable to do so because of divisions in the party. Cauchon was, however, promoted to Minister of Inland Revenue on June 8, 1877. In the Canadian cabinet the President of the Queens Privy Council of Canada is nominally in charge of the Privy Council Office. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Right Honourable Alexander Mackenzie, PC (January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892), a building contractor and writer, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878. ... The Justice Minister is a cabinet position in a government. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

As before, Cauchon was a leading source of division in his party. Wilfrid Laurier emerged as a leading opponent of Cauchon among the Quebec Liberals, and was successful in having him removed from cabinet in October 1877. As compensation, Cauchon was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, replacing the retiring Alexander Morris. Laurier re-directs here. ... A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Glorious and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Area 647,797 km² (8th)  - Land 553,556 km²  - Water 64,241 km² (14. ... The Honourable Alexander Morris, PC (March 17, 1826 – October 28, 1889) was a Canadian politician. ...

Cauchon's appointment was met with apprehension among Manitoba's anglophone residents. The province's population was divided on ethnic, linguistic and religious lines at the time, and there was often strong antagonism between members of different communities. Many within Manitoba's majority anglophone population believed that Cauchon would refuse to uphold their legal rights. This supposition proved false, although Cauchon did reserve approval of a 1878 bill that eliminated the printing of government legislation in French. 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

While the previous Lt. Governors of Manitoba had been intervenionist figures, Cauchon was generally content to assume a more ceremonial role. This was a reflection of the province's political maturity, and its ability to govern without direction from its formal executive.

Cauchon's term ended on December 1, 1882, although he remained in Manitoba after this time. Already wealthy from his business activities in Quebec, he had made a further fortune on railway speculation in the western province (estimates of his earnings range from half a million to a million dollars). He was caught in a market downtown just as his term in office came an end, however, and was forced to sell his luxurious Winnipeg mansion in 1884. He then moved to the Qu'Appelle Valley (in modern Saskatchewan), and lived in somewhat reduced circumstances until his death the following year. December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Location. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... Motto: Multis E Gentibus Vires (From many peoples, strength) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Regina Largest city Saskatoon Lieutenant Governor Lynda M. Haverstock Premier Lorne Calvert (NDP) Area 651,036 km² (7th)  - Land 591,670 km²  - Water 59,366 km² (9. ...

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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