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  • Lt. Col. John Molson, III (1787 - 1860)
    John Molson Junior (October 14, 1787 - July 12, 1860) was a Canadian politician and entrepreneur. Former Director of Molson Bank, President of the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad (Canada's first ra...
  • Antoine Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, 1767 (1767 - c.1827)
    Army and militia officer, politician, seigneur, and office holder in Lower CanadaEldest son of Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay and Julie-Louise Liénard de BeaujeuAntoine Louis Juchereau Duchesnay married M...
  • Toussaint Pothier (1771 - 1845)
  • Amable Dionne (1781 - 1852)
    , AMABLE, marchand, officier de milice, homme politique et seigneur, né le 30 novembre 1781 à Kamouraska, Québec, fils d’Alexandre Dionne, cultivateur et capitaine de milice, et de Magdelaine Michaud ;...
  • Jean-Antoine Panet (1751 - 1815)
    PANET, JEAN-ANTOINE, notaire, avocat, officier de milice, seigneur, homme politique et juge, né le 8 juin 1751 à Québec, fils aîné de Jean-Claude Panet* et de Marie-Louise Barolet ; le 7 octobre 1779, ...

The Legislative Council of Lower Canada was the upper house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The upper house consisted of appointed councillors who voted on bills passed up by the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. The legislative council was created by the Constitutional Act. Many of the members first called in the Council in 1792 had served as councillors in the Council for the Affairs of the Province of Quebec.

The council came to be dominated by the Château Clique, members of the province's most powerful families who were generally interested in preserving the status quo. Both the upper and lower houses were dissolved on March 27, 1838 following the Lower Canada Rebellion and Lower Canada was administered by an appointed Special Council.

Following the Act of Union in 1840, the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada was created in 1841.