Édouard-Raymond Fabre

Édouard -Raymond Fabre ( born September 15, 1799 in Montreal, † July 16, 1854 ) was a Canadian politician, booksellers and publishers. From 1849 to 1851 he was mayor of the city of Montreal.

Biography

The son of a carpenter received his education at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. As a 14 -year-old he started in the department store of Arthur Webster to work and got there in the following years with all aspects of the management trust. In 1822 he went to Paris to further his knowledge in the renowned bookstore Galeries boss Ange ( Hector Boss Ange, the owner's son, had six years earlier Fabre's sister Julie married ). 1823 opened Fabre in the Rue Notre -Dame in Montreal its own bookstore, the Librairie Française; 1828 to 1835 they operated under the name Librairie Fabre et Perrault, as with the printing of Fabre's brother Louis Perrault was a business cooperation. The bookstore was popular with students and teachers, with time, the Catholic clergy.

From the late 1820s Fabre supported the Patriotes who sought economic and democratic reforms. His shop served as an assembly point for this movement. In 1832 he saved the Patriotes the newspaper close to La Minerve before the bankruptcy, and he also acquired the English-language newspaper Vindicator and Canadian Advertiser, who also spread the ideas of the reformers. 1835 Fabre was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce Maison canadienne de commerce and the Banque du Peuple. These Canadian-French aligned institutions almost monopolistic supremacy of the Anglo- Scottish business should be broken. Fabre was a close friend of Louis -Joseph Papineau, one of the leaders of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 During the uprising he was hiding for over a year. ; He was arrested in December 1838, but was released a month later for lack of evidence.

Fabre took in 1843 a business trip to Paris to visit his friend Papineau, who was there in exile. Also thanks to the efforts of Fabre, the rebels were pardoned in 1846 by the colonial government, after which they could return. 1848 succeeded Fabre election to the City Council of Montreal, the same year he was appointed Chairman of the Finance Committee. He gained such a good reputation that the city councils in 1849 elected him mayor; an office he held until the end of February 1851. In the first weeks of his term infected applied conservatives who demonstrated against financial compensation for the rebels, the Parliament of the Province of Canada in fire. Although the unrest could be rapidly brought under control, but Montreal lost its status as the capital of the province of Canada. Fabre restructured the city finances and introduced measures to curb cholera.

Fabre was married to Luce Perrault since 1826, together they had eleven children. Two sons also gained prominence, Hector Fabre as a Canadian Senator and Édouard -Charles Fabre was the first Archbishop of Montreal. Daughter Hortense married the influential politician George -Étienne Cartier.