Joseph-Ovide Turgeon
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Joseph-Ovide Turgeon (1797 – 9 November 1856) was a Quebec official and political figure.
Early life and education
[edit]He was born at Terrebonne in 1797, a cousin of Louis Turgeon, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal.
Career
[edit]He travelled in the United States before settling again at Terrebonne. He was named commissioner in charge of extending the Effingham road to Killkenny in 1830.[citation needed]
Turgeon was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Effingham in 1824 as a member of the parti canadien and was reelected in 1827.[citation needed]
In 1830, he was elected again, this time in Terrebonne. Turgeon voted in support of the Ninety-Two Resolutions.[1] He was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in 1848 and died at Terrebonne while still in office in 1856.[citation needed]
Family
[edit]His daughter later married Charles Laberge, a member of the Legislative Assembly, and his son married the adopted daughter of Amable Berthelot.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, from the 7th January to the 18th March, 1834. Quebec: Neilson & Cowan. 1834. p. 337.
External links
[edit]- "Biography of Joseph-Ovide Turgeon". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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