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Antoine aime dorion biography

          DORION, Sir ANTOINE-AIMÉ, lawyer, newspaper owner, politician, and judge; b.

        1. Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion, lawyer, politician, judge (born 17 January in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Lower Canada; died in Montréal, QC).
        2. Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion PC (January 17, – May 31, ) was a French Canadian politician and jurist.
        3. Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion was a statesman and jurist who was joint premier of the Province of Canada (as the attorney general of Canada East).
        4. Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion PC was a French Canadian politician and jurist.

          5. Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion PC (January 17, – May 31, ) was a French Canadian politician and jurist..

          Antoine-Aimé Dorion

          Canadian politician

          Sir Antoine-Aimé DorionPC (January 17, 1818 – May 31, 1891) was a French Canadian politician and jurist.

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          Early years

          Dorion was born in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade into a family with liberal values that had been sympathetic to the Patriotes in 1837–1838. His father, merchant Pierre-Antoine Dorion, was a representative of the Patriote party in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1838.

          Born at La Pérade, Dorion was professor of civil law, President of the provincial Bar, and successor to Papineau as leader of the Liberal Party.

          After studies at the Nicolet seminary from 1830 to 1837, in his twenty-second year went to Montreal to read law with Côme-Séraphin Cherrier, an eminent lawyer with whom he retained a lasting friendship. On the 6th of January 1842 he was admitted to the bar of the province, became the partner of M.

          Cherrier, and in the course of a few years attained the highest rank in his profession.

          Political rise

          Dorion descended from a Liberal family which from early days had supported the Reform party in Canada. In addit