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Ludger Duvernay (
January 22 1799 –
November 28 1852) was born in
Verchères,
Quebec,
Canada.
He was a printer by profession and publishd a number of newspapers including the
Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and Montreal, and also
La Minerve, which supported the
Parti patriote and
Louis-Joseph Papineau in the years leading up to the
Lower Canada Rebellion.
Duvernay was briefly a member of the
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada representing Lachenaie in
1837.
Duvernay was one of several journalists imprisoned early in
1832 for criticizing the non-elected legislative council that represented the interests of the
Château Clique. Duvernay, editor of
La Minerve and
Daniel Tracey, another editor of the English language
the Vindicator newspaper were arrested for libel and imprisoned together for 40 days for writing articles that said that “it is certain that before long all of America must be republican.” They were released after much public support and condemnation of the arrests. He was arrested by the authorities on four separate occasions.
At the beginning of the
Lower Canada Rebellion, he fled to
Burlington, Vermont, but returned to
Montreal in
1842 to resume publication of a more moderate
La Minerve, which was at first sympathetic to
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and then later,
George-Etienne Cartier.
On June 9, 1843, Duvernay founded the
Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste (today, the
Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste and designated June 24 a day of celebration of
Canadien history and culture. The society was previously known as the Société
Aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera ("help yourself and Heaven will help you"), founded by Duvernay on
March 8,
1834. In 1922, June 24 became a public holiday in Quebec, and since 1977 it has been the
national holiday of Quebec.
On his death in Montreal in 1852, 10,000 people attended his funural. Duvernay was interred in the
Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.
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