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Napolon Antoine Belcourt, PC was a FrancoOntarian parliamentarian in Canada.

Belcourt was born in Toronto to FrenchCanadian parents, FerdinandNapolon Belcourt and MarieAnne Clair, and raised in TroisRivires, Quebec. He studied law at Universit Laval, was called to the Quebec bar in 1882 and began his legal practice in Montreal in 1882 before moving to Ottawa in 1884. Belcourt was called to the Ontario bar in 1884. He joined the law faculty at the University of Ottawa in 1891, and became proprietor of the newspaper Le Temps which supported the Liberal Party of Wilfrid Laurier. Belcourt served as clerk of the peace and crown attorney for Carleton County from 1894 to 1896. In 1899, he was named Queens Counsel.

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