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SIR HENRI GUSTAVE JOLY DE LOTBINIERE ...

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 495 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRI GUSTAVE JOLY DE LOTBINIERE (1829-1908)  , See also:Canadian politician, was See also:born at See also:Epernay in See also:France on the 5th of See also:December 1829 . His See also:father, Gaspard See also:Pierre Gustave Joly, the owner of famous vineyards at Epernay, was of Huguenot descent, and married Julie Christine, See also:grand-daughter of Eustache Gaspard See also:Michel See also:Chartier de Lotbiniere, See also:marquis de Lotbiniere (one of Montcalm's See also:engineers at See also:Quebec); he thus became seigneur de Lotbiniere . See also:Henri Gustave adopted the name of de Lotbiniere in 1888, under a See also:statute of the See also:province of Quebec . He was educated in See also:Paris, and called to the See also:bar of See also:lower See also:Canada in 1858 . On the 6th of May 1856 he married Margaretta Josepha (d . 1904), daughter of See also:Hammond Gowen, of Quebec . At the See also:general See also:election of 1861 he was elected to the See also:house of See also:assembly of the province of Canada as Liberal member for the See also:county of Lotbiniere, and from 1867 to 1874 he represented the same county in the House of See also:Commons, See also:Ottawa, and in the legislative assembly, Quebec . Joly was opposed to See also:confederation and supported See also:Dorion in the stand which he took on this question . In 1878 he was called by Luc Letellier de St Just, See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of Quebec, to See also:form an See also:administration, which was defeated in 1879, and until 1883 he was See also:leader of the opposition . During his brief administration he adopted a policy of See also:retrenchment, and endeavoured to abolish the legislative See also:council . In 1885, as a protest against the attitude of his party towards See also:Louis See also:Riel, who was tried and executed for high See also:treason, he retired from public See also:life . See also:Early in the See also:year -1895 he was induced again to take an active See also:part in the See also:campaign of his party, and at the general election of 1896 he was returned as member for the county of Portneuf .

He had already in 1895 been created K.C.M.G . On the formation of See also:

Sir See also:Wilfrid See also:Laurier's administration he accepted the See also:office of controller of inland See also:revenue, and a year later he became a privy councillor, as See also:minister of inland revenue . From 'goo to 1996 he was lieutenant-governor of the province of See also:British See also:Columbia . I-Ie twice declined a seat in the See also:senate, but rendered eminent service to Canada by promoting the See also:interest of See also:agriculture, See also:horticulture and of forestry . He died on the 17th of See also:November 1go8 . (A . G .

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