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About Louis Bourdages
- Louis Bourdages (July 6, 1764 – January 20, 1835) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born Louis-Marie Bourdages in Jeune-Lorette, Quebec in 1764, the son of Raymond Bourdages, an Acadian doctor and merchant.
- Bourdages studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he met Pierre-Stanislas Bédard.
- After he left school, he became a sailor and travelled to Europe and the West Indies.
- He returned to Quebec City in 1787, where he was unsuccessful in establishing himself as a merchant, and moved to Saint-Denis on the Richelieu River in 1790 where he became a farmer.
- He later articled as a notary and qualified to practice in 1805.
- Bourdages also became an important land-owner in the region. In 1804, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Richelieu; he represented this region until 1814.
- In 1806, he helped found Le Canadien.
- Bourdages was generally opposed to measures intended to put an end to seigneurial tenure.
- During the War of 1812, he served in the local militia, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
- He was elected in Buckinghamshire in an 1815 by-election and then represented it from 1820 to 1830, when Buckinghamshire was reorganized.
- He then represented Nicolet in the assembly from 1830 until his death at Saint-Denis in 1835.
- Bourdages helped prepare the Ninety-Two Resolutions submitted to the British government in 1834.
- In January 1835, he suffered an attack of apoplexy and died several days later. His son RĂ©mi-SĂ©raphin, who represented Rouville in the legislative assembly, died before his father in 1832.
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