Charles Boucher de Boucherville
Sir Charles -Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, CMG ( born May 4, 1822 in Montreal, † September 10, 1915 ) was a Canadian politician and physician. He was the third Premier of the Province of Quebec, and had served two terms, from September 22, 1874 until March 8, 1878 and 21 December 1891 to 13 December 1892. During this period he was also Chairman of the Parti conservateur du Québec held. His party he represented from 1867 until his death continuously in the Legislative Council of Quebec. For the Conservative Party of Canada from 1879 he sat in the Senate.
Biography
Boucherville grew up as one of three children of a laird and visited the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he graduated in 1840. He wrote subsequently of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal and completed part of his studies in Paris. There Boucherville completed his studies and returned back in 1843. After receiving his license, he opened a practice in Varennes, where he biieb to 1861. He then moved to Boucherville, where he, for the time being in the municipal sector, entirely devoted to the policy.
In July 1861 Boucherville was first elected for the constituency Chambly to the House of the Province of Canada. In 1863 he succeeded in re-election and he remained until the formation of the new Canadian federal state in 1867 lower house deputy. The first prime minister of Quebec, Pierre- Joseph -Olivier Chauveau, called him to be Speaker of the Legislative Council ( which he should belong to his death in 1915 ), which automatically made him a member of the Cabinet. Chauveau's successor Gedeon Ouimet replaced Boucherville as speaker in February 1873 by John Jones Ross. Following the resignation Ouimets due to the Tanneries scandal he was, who was a well- recognized political figure, as the right man considered for a new beginning.
On September 22, 1874 Boucherville was finally sworn in as Prime Minister. At the same time he took over the office as Provincial Secretary, Registrar and Minister of Education. His first term included the first working up the Tanneries scandal in which excluded the question of guilt of the former government, but the cancellation of the operation, who founded the scandal has been reached. Furthermore, he brought electoral reforms to the way that benefited the choice justice and corrupt mischief eindämmten. In return, the state withdrew from the school system, leaving that field to a large extent the Catholic and Protestant churches, which cemented the split school system for a long time (until 1998).
The government's decision to let the costly rail network expansion co-finance by the neighboring communities, provoked the resistance of Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier de Saint -Just, the Boucherville after his laws foray in March 1878 finally settled. The relationship between the two had been previously tense. Boucher Villes successor and first liberal prime minister of Quebec, Henri - Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, however, the lack of a parliamentary majority, first of all had to perform granted by resolution Letellier government and new elections. Despite the almost most possible electoral defeat of the Liberals (1 seat less than the Conservatives, 2 independent Conservative in Parliament ) Lotbinière could represent the first Liberal minority government. Due to the defeat of the conservative House leader Boucher Villes authority was further undermined what his resignation from the party leadership made inevitable. Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald appointed him in February 1879 Senator.
Boucherville worked on the Legislative Council and focused on local issues there, where the railroad remained a point of contention. Ironically, he came through an incident that turned back to a dispute relating to the railroad, unexpectedly to a second term. Lieutenant Governor Auguste- Réal Angers dismissed in December 1891 the then Liberal Prime Minister Honoré Mercier as a result of the Chaleur Bay scandal and replaced him with Boucherville. Again, there was a majority problem, this time of course, vice versa, now that the Liberals formed the majority of deputies in the lower house. The elections were, however, made in favor of the Conservatives. A Boucher launched in Villes second term change in the law allowed women to participate in local and school elections, even though they were not allowed to continue to compete as candidates themselves. However, his main focus was economic concerns: There were a number of tax impositions on occupational areas that were not previously affected, such as lawyers, business owners and others.
End of 1892, Lieutenant Governor Auguste- Réal exchanged Angers and the former Prime Minister Joseph -Adolphe Chapleau ( by then Secretary of State in Ottawa ), their offices. Boucherville, whose relationship was strained to Chapleau, did not want to cooperate with this as the new deputy governor and announced his retirement. However, he advised Chapleau yet to Louis -Olivier Taillon to appoint his successor, what then happened. Boucherville then looked back further in the Legislative Council, where he was a 1900 attempt to abolish it ( this happened only in 1968 ), and contrary presented. This time he devoted himself more to the Federal Affairs, spoke out against an increase in the head tax on Chinese immigrants and supported efforts to create a capital district for Ottawa on a model of the U.S. District of Columbia. In his last major political action he opposed the creation of a Canadian navy, on the one hand because of the cost, partly because of the danger of being drawn into conflicts of Great Britain, but this could not prevent the end.
1914 Boucherville was knighted for his loyal service. He died after a short illness aged 93 in September 1915.