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About Louis Roy Portelance
- Louis Roy Portelance (October 16, 1764 – March 2, 1838) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born at Pointe-Claire in 1764, the son of a farmer, and studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël.
- He then entered the fur trade as a voyageur.
- In 1791, Portelance married his cousin Marie-Josephte, daughter of François Périnault and widow of silversmith Jacques Varin.
- Soon afterwards, Portelance entered the lumber trade, supplying boards and planks for construction in Montreal.
- He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada to represent Montreal County in 1804 and represented it until 1814.
- In 1809, he married Louise, the daughter of merchant Jacques Languedoc and sister of François Languedoc, who later became a member of the legislative assembly.
- Portelance was elected to represent Montreal East in 1816.
- He generally supported the parti canadien in the assembly.
- He retired from the lumber business around 1820.
- He helped found La Banque du Peuple in 1837. He died at Kamouraska in Lower Canada in 1838.
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