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James Stuart, lawyer, politician and judge [textual record, graphic material]

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Date:

1811-1853.

Reference:

R2703-2-X-E, MG24-B12

Type of material:

Textual material, Art

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Item ID number:

111958

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James and Andrew Stuart fonds

James Stuart, lawyer, politician and judge
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Series includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1811-1853.

Place of creation:

Various places

Extent:

2.7 cm of textual records.
2 paintings.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of a letter of Sir James to his brother-in-law, Charles Jones, 23 September 1811, photostat, 3 pages (vol. 1, file 5); and a bound volume entitled: "Observations on the proposed Union of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada under one Legislature", respectfully submitted to His Majesty's Government by the Agent of the Petitioners for that measure, signed J. Stuart, London, 6 June 1823, original, 126 pages, including in Appendix A a list of 45 petitions favoring the Union (vol. 1, file 6).
Series also contains 2 oil paintings of Sir James Stuart, one of them done by Théophile Hamel in 1852.

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Stuart, J. (James), 1780-1853

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Stuart, J. (James), 1780-1853 : Sir James Stuart was born in 1780 in Fort Hunter, New York and came in Canada in 1781 with his family; he died at Quebec on 14 July 1853. He was the third son of the Rev. John Stuart and Jane Okill. He completed his apprenticeship in the study of law and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1801. That same year, he founded a law firm which became, more than a century later, Gravel et Associés.

He was appointed as Solicitor General for Lower Canada in 1805 and was later dismissed by the governor, James Craig in May 1809. A supporter of the Canadian Party, he was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Lower Canada for Montreal East, 1808-1820; Buckingham, 1814; and for William Henry, 1825-1827. He was appointed to the post of Attorney General on 31 January 1825 but was suspended from it by Lord Aylmer in November 1832.

Stuart was appointed a member of the Executive Council on 6 July 1827 and remained in that post until the Act of Union took effect on 10 February 1841. Appointed a member of the Special Council on 2 April 1838 and called again to the Special Council on 11 November 1839, he was a member and later President of this body until the Act of Union. On 22 October 1838 he was appointed as the Chief Justice of Lower Canada, retaining this position until his death.

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MG24-B12
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Volume [MG24 B 12] 1

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