Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean-Baptiste Meilleur

Canadian doctor, educator and political figure

Date of Birth: 08-May-1796

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1878

Profession: writer, physician, politician, journalist, essayist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jean-Baptiste Meilleur

  • Jean-Baptiste Meilleur (May 8, 1796 – December 6, 1878) was a doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada, Canada East, and Quebec. He was born at Petite-CĂ´te in Saint-Laurent, Lower Canada on the Island of Montreal in 1796, the son of Jean Meilleur, and studied at the Petit SĂ©minaire de MontrĂ©al and an English school in Montreal.
  • Meilleur studied at the Castleton Academy of Medicine and Middlebury College at Middlebury in Vermont and then at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, receiving an M.D.
  • in 1825.
  • He was qualified to practice in Lower Canada the following year and set up practice at L'Assomption.
  • In 1827, he married JosĂ©phine Éno, dit Deschamps, the daughter of Antoine HĂ©nault.
  • He served as a lieutenant in the local militia, later being commissioned as a surgeon for the militia.
  • He was named to the Medical Board for Montreal district and also was a justice of the peace and the postmaster at L'Assomption.
  • In 1834, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for L'Assomption County.
  • Meilleur supported the parti patriote, but did not support the use of force to achieve political change. He helped to maintain a museum of natural history originally established by Pierre Chasseur.
  • Meilleur helped found the Collège de l'Assomption in 1834.
  • He also taught in the local schools and produced the first chemistry textbook written by a Canadian and published in Canada for use in Canadian schools.
  • In 1842, he was named first superintendent of education in Canada East.
  • He resigned in June 1855. Meilleur served as a president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal in 1857.
  • In 1860, he published MĂ©morial de l’éducation du Bas-Canada, a history of education in the province.
  • In 1870, he was named president of the Natural History Society of Quebec. He died at Montreal in 1878 and was buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery. His daughter JosĂ©phine-Charlotte married Georges-Isidore Barthe; his daughter Marie-Alphonsine married Louis-Alphonse Boyer.
  • Another daughter Herminie married Jules Randolph Berthelot.

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