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Encyclopedia > Ludger Duvernay

Ludger Duvernay (January 22, 1799 - November 28, 1852) was born in Verchères, Quebec.


He was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, and also La Minerve, which supported the Parti patriote and Louis-Joseph Papineau before the rebellion. He was arrested by the authorities on four separate occasions.


In 1834 he helped found and lead the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste (today, the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society). He was briefly a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1837.


He fled to Burlington, Vermont when the Patriotes Rebellion began, but returned to Montreal in 1842 and resumed publication of La Minerve until his death, supporting Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine against Papineau.


See also

External links

  • National Assembly biography (http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/d/DUVEL.htm) (in French)

Ludger Duvernay is interred in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montreal, Quebec.


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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (4917 words)
Duvernay had been warned that his arrest was imminent and had fled by the time the bailiffs made their appearance at the printing house of La Minerve.
Duvernay was appointed coordinating commissioner, a key post which put the responsibility for current matters in his hands and allowed him to give the society its guidelines and objectives.
Duvernay shared Papineau’s admiration for the “republican elective institutions” of the United States but he was also much more conciliatory and no longer approved of the “radicalism” of the Patriote party’s former leader.
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