Charles Panet was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec

Quebec

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. He represented Quebec County in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper Canada, then known as Canada West and later the...

 from 1858 to 1861.

He was born in Quebec City

Quebec City

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, the son of Jean-Antoine Panet

Jean-Antoine Panet

Jean-Antoine Panet was a notary, lawyer, judge, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Quebec in 1751, the son of Jean-Claude Panet. He served in the militia defending the town of Quebec during the American Revolution and he later attained the rank of ieutenant-colonel in the...

 and Louise-Philippe Badelart, the daughter of Philippe-Louis-François Badelard

Philippe-Louis-François Badelard

Philippe-Louis-François Badelard was an army officer and surgeon from France who came to Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, in 1757. He was the surgeon-major to the troops there and they left that year for Quebec City in New France...

. He was admitted to the Lower Canada bar in 1822 and set up practice in Quebec City. He was coroner for Quebec district from 1831 to 1839. In 1855, he was named King's Counsel. In 1845, he married Frances O'Donnell. Panet served as lieutenant-colonel in the militia. In 1862, he was named curator for the judicial archives for Quebec district. He died in Quebec City at the age of 80.

His brother Phillippe

Philippe Panet

Philippe Panet was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City in 1791, the son of Jean-Antoine Panet, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec...

 served in the legislative assembly for Lower Canada and his brother Louis

Louis Panet

Louis Panet was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He sat for La Salle division in the Senate of Canada from 1871 to 1874...

served in the Canadian senate.