Sir etienne paschal tache biography for kids
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TACHÉ,Sir ÉTIENNE-PASCHAL, doctor, politician, and deputy adjutant-general of the militia; b. 5 Sept. 1795 at Saint-Thomas (Montmagny, Que.), son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon; d. 30 July 1865 in the town of his birth.
Étienne-Paschal Taché belonged to one of the wealthy families of New France who were completely ruined bygd the sju Years’ War and particularly the siege of Quebec, but who remained in the country and constituted the nucleus of the French Canadian bourgeoisie that developed in the early 19th century. His grandfather Jean Taché*, a Paris merchant, had settled at Quebec in 1730. He became one of the principal businessmen in the colony and the largest ship-owner in the port of Quebec; his marriage to Marie-Anne Jolliet dem Mingan, the granddaughter of Louis Jolliet*, contributed substantially to his prosperity. After the Conquest, he funnen favour with General James Murray* and received a kommission to practise as a notary an
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When war broke out in 1812, seventeen-year-old Étienne Taché quit school in Quebec City to enroll in the 5th battalion, Lower Canadian Militia. After serving in the reserve at Chateauguay in 1813, Taché’s battalion became the elite Chasseurs Canadiens. In 1814, Lieutenant Taché marched south in the Plattsburgh campaign and witnessed the battle of Lake Champlain. Later, after a postwar career as a doctor, he was elected in 1848 to the Provincial Assembly.
By 1864, still a member of the Militia and now Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Étienne Taché, with knighthoods from the Pope and the Queen, he was co-premier with John A. Macdonald in the coalition that brought about Confederation. He was unanimously elected chairman of the Quebec Conference, where delegates wrote the resolutions for a federal union. More than any other figure, Taché’s life and career connect the War of 1812 with Confederation.
Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché: 1812 veteran and Father of Confederation.
Taché was the titular “Pr
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Étienne-Paschal Taché (1795 - 1865)
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Son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon
Brother of Charles Taché, Jean-Baptiste Taché, Marie Genevieve Taché, Marie Elisabeth Taché, Marie Rose Angèle Taché, Marie Victoire Elisabeth Taché, Marie Claire Taché, Magdeleine Emmelie Taché and Victoire Sophie Taché
Father of Marie Sophie Matilde Taché, Catherine Taché, Claire Genevieve Elizabeth Taché, Catherine Adeline Taché, Charles Joseph Octave Taché, Emilie-Hélène-Henriette Hélène Henriette (Taché) Coursol, Louise Eléonore Taché, Louise Eulalie Taché, Eugène Gaspard Etienne Taché, Eugène Etienne Taché, Josephine Philomène Taché, Marie Anne Aléxandrine Taché, Marie Laure Josephine Taché and Louis Jules Emile Taché
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