Auguste-Réal Angers

Sir Auguste- Réal Angers, KCB, PC ( born October 4, 1837 in Quebec City, † April 14, 1919 in Westmount ) was a Canadian politician and judge. He was both a member of the Canadian Senate and the House of Commons. In three conservative federal cabinets as well as in the provincial government of Quebec, he held several ministerial posts. From 1887 to 1892 he acted as vice- governor of the province of Quebec.

Biography

Most biographers assume that Angers was born on 4 October 1838 in the provincial capital of Quebec. However, his birth certificate is not found and the census register of 1901 indicates that he was born a year earlier in the suburb of Beauport. There are indications that he was adopted as an infant by the writer François- Réal Angers.

Angers studied law at the Université Laval in 1860 and was admitted as a lawyer. Then he practiced his profession in the city of Québec. In 1874, he appeared as a candidate of the Parti conservateur du Québec at a by-election for a seat in the National Assembly of Quebec and won the electoral district of Montmorency. Charles -Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, who had become as a result of Tanneries scandal new prime minister, Angers adopted in October 1874 as Solicitor General (legal counsel ) to the provincial government. In January 1876, the appointed Attorney General followed.

Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier de Saint -Just put Boucherville off in March 1878, Henri- Gustave Joly de certain Lotbinière his successor. Angers was defeated at the next election by 14 votes. After a successful election, he moved in February 1880 in the Canadian House of Commons, where he again took Montmorency. But in November of the same year he gave up his seat because he had been appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Québec. Governor General Lord Lansdowne sworn Angers on 29 October 1887 as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. As part of the Chaleur Bay scandal he sat in August 1891 a commission of inquiry against Prime Minister Honoré Mercier. On December 16, he dismissed due to the Mercier raised allegations of corruption.

Angers remained until 5 December 1892, at office, whereupon the Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson appointed him to the Senate and appointed as Minister of Agriculture in the Federal Government. On 12 July 1895 he resigned to protest against the inactivity of Thompson's successor Mackenzie Bowell in the Manitoba school question. In Charles Tupper's short-lived reign he was from May 1 to July 8, 1896 President of the Privy Council. Angers resigned as senator back to participate in the general election in 1896, but lost significantly. He settled in Montreal then down again and practiced as a lawyer.