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About Hippolyte Dubord
- Hippolyte Dubord (November 25, 1801 – October 9, 1872) was a Quebec ship builder and political figure. He was born in Bonaventure, Lower Canada in 1801 and moved to Quebec City with his family.
- He built his first ship, the Bonaparte, in 1827.
- In 1836, he was named justice of the peace.
- He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for the Lower Town of Quebec in 1834, serving until 1838, when the constitution was suspended following the Lower Canada Rebellion.
- Dubord had built four ships by 1845, then built 23 more by 1855 and built 25 between 1856 and 1869, when he gave up ship building.
- He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for the city of Quebec in 1851; he did not run in 1854 and was elected again in 1858.
- His election was declared invalid in 1860 and he was defeated by Pierre-Gabriel Huot in the by-election that followed. In 1872, Dubord fell to his death at night after stepping out a fourth story window of a hotel at Quebec City; he was believed to have been disoriented, believing that he was in his bedroom at home, and the death was ruled accidental.
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