Memorable Manitobans: Andre Beauchemin (1824-1902)

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Andre Beauchemin
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MLA (1871-1874).

Uncle of Baptiste Beauchemin, he was a delegate to the November 1869 council from St. Vital. Later he was a French delegate from St. Vital to the Convention of Forty (1870) and a councillor in the Provisional Government of 1870. Elected to the provincial legislature in December 1870, he delivered the famous Riel-Lépine letter to Lieutenant-Governor Morris in 1873. He died at Brandon on 13 December 1902.

Sources:

“Mort d’un ancien depute,” Le Manitoba, 17 December 1902.

Death registration [Andre Beauchamp], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.

We thank Oliver Bernuetz (Legislative Library of Manitoba) for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 25 April 2023

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