Sir hector-louis langevin biography for kids
Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, politician, lawyer, journalist (born 25 August in Québec City, Lower Canada; died 11 June in Québec City).
LANGEVIN, Sir HECTOR-LOUIS, lawyer, journalist, and politician; b....
LANGEVIN, Sir HECTOR-LOUIS, lawyer, journalist, and politician; b. 25 Aug. at Quebec, son of Jean Langevin and Sophie Laforce; m. 10 Jan.
Marie-Justine Têtu, daughter of Charles-Hilaire Têtu*, in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, and they had nine children, including Hectorine, who married Thomas Chapais* in ; d. 11 June at Quebec.
Hector-Louis Langevin was descended from a soldier in the Régiment de Carignan-Salières, which Jean Talon* settled in Bourg-Royal (Quebec) between and after a major expedition against the Iroquois.
Hector-Louis Langevin was the “architect” of the residential schools system, that he was the key member of the federal government who pushed for its creation.On 26 Nov. at Quebec, Jean Bergevin, dit Langevin, married Marie Piton, a native of the parish of Saint-Paul in the diocese of Paris. Their family worked the land until early in the 19th century, when Jean, the father of Hector-Louis, abandoned farming to become a shopkeeper and office holder at Quebec.
Jean’s marriage on 15 Aug. to the daughter of Pierre Laforce, a notary, confirmed his rising social status. T