Joseph Valois was a businessman, farmer and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

. He represented Montréal in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791...

 from 1820 to 1834.

He was born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, the son of Jean Valois and Marie-Josèphe Dubois. In 1790, he married Catherine Leduc Saint-Omer. Valois generally supported the Parti patriote and voted in support of the Ninety-Two Resolutions

Ninety-Two Resolutions

The Ninety-Two Resolutions were drafted by Louis-Joseph Papineau and other members of the Parti patriote of Lower Canada in 1834. The resolutions were a long series of demands for political reforms in the British-governed colony....

. He died in Montreal at the age of 67.

His nephew Michel-François Valois

Michel-François Valois

Michel-François Valois was a physician and political figure in Canada East.He was born in Pointe-Claire in 1801 and studied at the Collège de Montréal. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1826 and set up practice in Pointe-Claire. Valois became a school trustee in 1830...

later served in the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada.