Henri Jules Juchereau Duchesnay
HenriJules Juchereau Duchesnay was a lawyer, farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Dorchester in the Canadian House of Commons in 1887 as a Nationalist Conservative member.
He was born in SainteMariedelaNouvelleBeauce, Canada East, the son of seigneur ElzarHenri Juchereau Duchesnay and lisabethSuzanne Taschereau, who was the daughter of JeanThomas Taschereau. He was educated at the Petit Sminaire de Qubec, the Universit Laval and McGill University. Juchereau Duchesnay was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1866 and first practised in Quebec City, later moving back to SainteMarie. In 1869, he married Caroline Ttu. He was named a lieutenantcolonel in the militia and also served as stipendiary magistrate for Beauce County, inspector of mines in the Beauce region, mayor of SainteMariedeBeauce and warden for Beauce County. In 1882, he established a local creamery, which had what are believed to be the first centrifugal cream separators installed in North America. In 1885, Juchereau Duchesnay spoke against the execution of Louis Riel. After being elected in the 1887 federal election, he died in office at SainteMarie later that same year of typhoid fever at the a
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