Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Member of Legislative Assembly of Quebec
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Place of Birth: Chambly, Quebec, Canada
About Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois
- Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois (November 6, 1846 – September 30, 1926) was a physician and political figure in Quebec.
- He represented Shefford in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1888 to 1892 and from 1897 to 1903 as a Liberal. He was born in Chambly, Canada East, the son of Dr.
- Charles-Henri Boucher de Grosbois and Émilie-Magdeleine Boucher de Boucherville, the daughter of seigneur Pierre-Amable Boucher de Boucherville.
- Boucher de Grosbois was educated privately, then at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe and McGill University.
- He received his qualifications as a doctor in 1868 and practised in Longueuil, Saint-Bruno, Roxton Falls and Chambly.
- In 1870, he was married to Dorothée Bruneau.
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in 1872 and for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1881.
- Boucher de Grosbois was first elected in an 1888 by-election held after the death of Thomas Brassard and was reelected in 1890.
- He was defeated by Adolphe-François Savaria in 1892 and then was reelected in 1897.
- He resigned from politics in 1903 and returned to the practice of medicine.
- He was assistant medical director for the Hôpital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in Montreal from 1918 to 1920.
- He died in Montreal at the age of 79 and was buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery. His uncle Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville served as Quebec premier.
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