Henri Elzéar Taschereau
Judge
1836 – 1911
Who was Henri Elzéar Taschereau?
Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, PC was a Canadian jurist and the fourth Chief Justice of Canada.
He was born in his family's seigneurial manor house at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Beauce, Lower Canada to Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau and Catherine Hénédine Dionne. Tashereau attended the Université Laval and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1857. That same year he married Marie-Antoinette de Lotbiniere Harwood, daughter of Robert Unwin Harwood, and they were the parents of seven children. He married his second wife, Marie-Louise Panet, in 1897 and fathered three more children.
He practiced law in Quebec City and entered politics in 1861 when he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of what was then the Province of Canada where he opposed Canadian Confederation. He was appointed a judge of the Quebec Superior Court in 1871 and to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1878 following the retirement of Jean-Thomas Taschereau, and also taught law part-time at the University of Ottawa. In 1902 he became Chief Justice serving for four years until his retirement in 1906.
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- Born
- Oct 7, 1836
Sainte-Marie, Quebec - Also known as
- Henri Elzear Taschereau
- Henri-Elzéar Taschereau
- Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 14, 1911
Ottawa
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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