Hector-Louis Langevin – Wikipedia

Hector-Louis Langevin
Functions
MP for the House of Commons
November 21, 1878 – June 22, 1896 ( 17 years, 7 months and 1 day )
Constituency	Trois-Rivières
Predecessor	William McDougall
Successor	Wilfrid Gariépy
5 mars – December 14, 1891 ( 9 months and 9 days )
Constituency	Richelieu
Predecessor	Joseph-Aimé Massue
Successor	Arthur Aimé Bruneau
January 22, 1876 – August 17, 1878 ( 2 years, 6 months and 26 days )
Constituency	Charlevoix
Predecessor	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay
Successor	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay
September 20, 1867 – January 21, 1874 ( 6 years, 4 months and 1 day )
Constituency	Dorchester
Predecessor	New district
Successor	François Fortunat Rouleau
Minister of Public Works
May 20, 1879 – August 11, 1891 ( 12 years, 2 months and 22 days )
Prime Minister	John A. Macdonald John Abbott
Predecessor	Charles Tupper
Successor	Frank Smith
December 8, 1869 – November 5, 1873 ( 3 years, 10 months and 28 days )
Prime Minister	John A. Macdonald
Predecessor	William McDougall
Successor	Alexander Mackenzie
MP for the Quebec Legislative Assembly
first is July 1871 – January 21, 1874 ( 2 years, 6 months and 20 days )
Constituency	Quebec Center
Predecessor	Georges-Honoré Simard
Successor	Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret
August 22, 1867 – June 16, 1871 ( 3 years, 9 months and 25 days )
Constituency	Dorchester
Predecessor	First holder
Successor	Louis-Napoleon Larochelle
MP for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Canada
January 13, 1858 – first is July 1867 ( 9 years, 5 months and 18 days )
Constituency	Dorchester
Predecessor	Barthélemy Pouliot
Successor	Abolished district
9 It is Mayor of Quebec
January 19, 1858 – January 22, 1861 ( 3 years and 3 days )
Predecessor	Joseph Morrin
Successor	Thomas Pope
Biography
Date of birth	August 25, 1826
Place of birth	Quebec, Bas-Canada
Date of death	June 11, 1906 (at 79)
Place of death	Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Canada Conservative Party Quebec Conservative Party Blue party
Siblings	Jean Langevin
Profession	Attorney Journalist
List of mayors of Quebec City
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Sir Hector-Louis Langevin , born the August 25, 1826 and dead the June 11, 1906 In Quebec, is a politician, a lawyer, a journalist, one of the founders of the Aboriginal residential system and a father of the Canadian Confederation ^{[ first ]} .

Langevin was born in Quebec in 1826. He studied law with George-Étienne Cartier and was called to the bar in 1850. In 1856, he was elected to the city council of the city of Quebec and he was the mayor of this city of 1858 in 1861. In 1857, he was elected deputy for the district of Dorchester in the Chamber of Commons of Canada as a member of the Conservative Party. Still in 1857, he was editor -in -chief of Courier from Canada .

Within Canada-Uni, he held the posts of general request (1864-1866), then Minister of Posts (1866-1867). Langevin attended the three conferences which led to the Canadian Confederation.

After the training of the Canadian Confederation, he was a general superintendent of Indian affairs (from May 22, 1868 to December 8, 1869), Minister of Public Works (from September 29, 1869 to November 7, 1873), Secretary of State of Canada (from 1st July 1867 to December 8, 1869), general registrar of Canada (from July 1, 1867 to December 8, 1869), Minister of Posts (from October 19, 1878 to May 20, 1879) and Minister of Public Works (from May 20, 1879 to June 6, 1891 ).

From 1872 to 1875, he was the political director of the newspaper The Canadian . He left politics in 1873 because of his role in the Pacific scandal.

In 1876, he was re -elected in the district of Charlevoix. His opponent disputes the election and she was declared invalid, but he won the subsequent by-law election in 1877. He was defeated in Rimouski in 1878, but was however elected by acclamation in the district of Trois-Rivières the same year. Langevin becomes the Minister of Public Works in 1879. In 1885, he claimed behind behind the scenes that Louis Riel was not hanged and he was one of the only conservative deputies in the Canadian Parliament to survive the disastrous conservative defeat in the province of Quebec in 1887.

The new Prime Minister John Abbott promises him the post of Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec if he resigns as Minister of Public Works. Langevin resigned in 1891, but Abbott appointed Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau in his place. Langevin left politics in 1896.

Langevin died in the same city in 1906 at the age of 79, two months before his 80 ^{It is} anniversary.

He is the author of Canada, its institutions, resources, products, manufacturers, etc. . During his life, he is also the president of the Canadian Institute and the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

The Langevin building on the hill of Parliament is appointed in its honor. However, he was tired in 2017 at the request of the First Nations who claimed that Hector-Louis Langevin was at the origin of the creation of the Aboriginal boarding system, when he has never exercised the slightest ministerial authority over any boarding school Aboriginal, the federal Aboriginal boarding schools having been created in 1883, 14 years after Langevin had finished exercising the functions of superintendent of Indian affairs. The Langevin building now bears the name of “Office of the Prime Minister and the Private Council” (in English: Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council ).

In 2013, a public park was appointed in its honor in the port of Trois-Rivières. This honor stems from the fact, in particular, that it is owed to him the bill creating the Havre of Trois-Rivières commission, the first public administration responsible for the management and development of the Trois-Rivières port.

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It was in 1842 that the young Langevin, then seminarian at the Quebec seminar, met Father Pierre-Henri Bouchy, with whom he corresponded to 1886 ^{[ 2 ]} . The French abbot, holder of a liberal pedagogy he exercised in Quebec between 1842 and 1855, breathed a taste for letters and encouraged him in his first journalistic ambitions. In a letter dated May 21, 1847 , Father Bouchy writes: “What I understood is that you have to enter the writer’s working life soon, that from time to time we would see your thought emitted on the leaves of the country and that you would teach me. We are waiting … Fierce as long as we are waiting for Mr Gingras’ book ^{[ 3 ]} . »A few months later (the July 17, 1847 ), Hector-Louis Langevin becomes editor at Religious mixtures Where he supports a reformist and non -ultramontaine policy, which was against the newspaper’s aims. Pierre-Henri Bouchy will again encouraged his former student in 1886 while the Canadian government underwent the upset of the hanging of Louis Riel ^{[ 4 ]} .

Architect of Aboriginal boarding schools? [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Some called Langevin as “architect of Aboriginal residential schools” and attempted to make him bear responsibility for the creation of the Federal Aboriginal residential network by mentioning the fact that Minister of Public Works, to have the budget approved for the Construction of Aboriginal boarding schools, he made the following declaration to the House of Commons: “If we want to instruct these children, we must separate them from their parents, because, leaving them in the family, they will undoubtedly be able to learn to read and write, but they will remain wild; While by separating them, they will acquire habits and tastes – the best, I hope – civilized people ^{[ 5 ]} . » .

Like all the other 133 other conservative deputies, he followed the party line and resumed, almost word for word, the argument of John A. Macdonald who, as superintendent of Indian affairs and Prime Minister, had just made Vote, three weeks earlier, the creation of federal Aboriginal boarding schools. Macdonald then declared: “When the schools are in the reserves, the child lives with his parents who are wild; He is surrounded by savages, and even if he can learn to read and write, his ways, his training and his way of thinking are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write ^{[ 6 ]} . » .

The Ministry of Public Works built the first federal Aboriginal boarding schools, but the ministerial responsibility of Langevin in the decision to create a federal network of Aboriginal boarding schools is not formally established. In 1883 Macdonald was both Prime Minister and Superintendent of Indian Affairs and he therefore brought the capital ministerial responsibility for this decision.

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An archive fund of Hector Langevin is kept at the Quebec Quebec City Archives Center and Archives in Quebec ^{[ 7 ]} . Another fund being intended for preserved in Library and Archives Canada ^{[ 8 ]} .

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