CARON

Réné Edouard ( son of August in Caron of parish of St. Anne Cote of Beaupré, Lower Canada ). b. St. Anne, Nov. or Dec. 1800; barrister Lower Canada 1826; member of city council of Quebec 1832, mayor 1833–7; M.P. for Upper town of Quebec 1834–6; Q.C. 1848; member of legislative council of Canada 1841–57, speaker 8 Nov. 1843 to 1847 and 11 March 1848 to 1853, member of executive council 28 Oct. 1851; puisne judge of superior court 15 Aug. 1853, of Court of Queen’s Bench, Quebec 27 Jany. 1855; lieutenant governor of province of Quebec 11 Feb. 1873 to death. d. Quebec 13 Dec. 1876. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 472–3.