Léandre Dumouchel was a Quebec

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 doctor and political figure. He was a Conservative Party of Canada

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 member of the Senate of Canada for Mille Isles division from 1867 to 1882.

He was born Vital-Léandre Dumouchelle in Saint-Benoît

Saint-Benoît, Quebec

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, Lower Canada

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, the son of Jean-Baptiste Dumouchelle

Jean-Baptiste Dumouchelle

Jean-Baptiste Dumouchelle was born in Sandwich , Upper Canada. At the age of 11 he left Sandwich, completing his classical studies at Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal in 1803. He later worked as a clerk and then became a general merchant at Saint-Benoît making him a well established figure in...

, in 1811 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. He apprenticed in medicine, qualified to practice in 1835 and set up his practice at Saint-Benoît. Dumouchel took part in the Lower Canada Rebellion

Lower Canada Rebellion

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 but was not arrested, although he was removed from his position as a justice of the peace. He took refuge until an amnesty was announced and then returned to his practice at Saint-Benoît, later moving to Saint-Jérôme

Saint-Jérôme, Quebec

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 in the 1840s. He served as lieutenant-colonel in the local militia from 1847 to 1869 and was president of the agricultural society for Deux-Montagnes County. He was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

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 in 1864 and served until Confederation

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, when he was named to the Senate.

He died in Saint-Benoît in 1882.