Félix Routhier was an Ontario

Ontario

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 businessman and political figure. He represented Prescott

Prescott (electoral district)

Prescott was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1953. It wasd located in the province of Ontario...

 in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 as a Conservative

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 member from 1878 to 1882.

He was born in Saint-Placide

Saint-Placide, Quebec

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, Lower Canada

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 in 1827, the son of farmer Charles Routhier. He married Angelique Lemay dit Delorme in 1849. He served as justice of the peace, major in the local militia and mayor of Saint-Placide. In 1870, he moved to Vankleek Hill, Ontario

Vankleek Hill, Ontario

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, where he took over the operation of a foundry

Foundry

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. Routhier defeated Albert Hagar

Albert Hagar

Albert Hagar was a Canadian merchant and politician.Born in North Plantagenet Township, Upper Canada , the son of Abner Hagar, a former Montreal merchant, and Hannah P. Barker, he was educated in Vermont and became a farmer, merchant and lumber dealer and owned a sawmill and gristmill at Plantagenet...

 to win the Prescott seat in 1878; he was defeated by Simon Labrosse

Simon Labrosse

Simon Labrosse was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Canadian House of Commons as an independent Conservative member from 1882 to 1891....

 in the elections that followed in 1882 and 1887 and by Isidore Proulx

Isidore Proulx

Isidore Proulx was an Ontario farmer, merchant and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Canadian House of Commons, as a Liberal Party member from 1891 to 1904....

 in 1891. The foundry at Vankleek Hill went bankrupt in 1897.

He was the brother of judge Adolphe-Basile Routhier

Adolphe-Basile Routhier

Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem O Canada. He was born in Saint-Placide, Quebec to Charles Routhier and Angélique Lafleur.Routhier studied law at Université Laval and graduated...

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External links

• http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32955The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1881 CH Mackintosh
  Charles H. Mackintosh
  Charles Herbert Mackintosh was a journalist, mayor of Ottawa from 1879–1881, represented Ottawa City as a Liberal-Conservative in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1887, and from 1890 to 1893, and served as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1893 to 1898.-Parentage and...
  
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• Vankleek Hill & District Historical Society