Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
The Honourable Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau KCMG QC | |
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1st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
In office July 1, 1867 – February 11, 1873 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Governors General | |
Premier | George Okill Stuart, Jr. |
Succeeded by | Ulric-Joseph Tessier |
Personal details | |
Born | Sainte-Foy, Lower Canada | October 20, 1808
Died | September 14, 1894 | (aged 85)
Political party | Conservative |
Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
Early life
He was born in
Political career
In 1852, he was appointed to the
Later life
After politics, Belleau continued to sit on the board of the Quebec Bank and took an active role in social functions. He maintained his political influence.[1]
Belleau was involved in some significant litigation later in his life. He had invested in debentures issued by a Quebec toll-road company, authorised under pre-Confederation laws. When the company defaulted on the bonds, he and other bond-holders sued the federal government for payment of the principal and interest. Although the plaintiffs were successful in the Supreme Court of Canada, the decision was overturned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, at that time the highest court of appeal for the British Empire, including Canada. In The Queen v Belleau, the Judicial Committee held that by the terms of the statute, the federal government was not liable for either principal or interest.[2]
He died at Quebec City in 1894 and left his fortune, which contemporaries estimated as between $200,000 and $400,000, to his nephew.
References
- BELLEAU, Sir NARCISSE-FORTUNAT. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–". biographi.ca. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
External links
- "Biography of Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- Brassard, Michèle; Hamelin, Jean (1990). "Belleau, Sir Narcisse-Fortunat". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XII (1891–1900) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau – Parliament of Canada biography