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OBITUARY. • it SIR CHARLES PELLETIER. By Telegraph.— Prees Association.— Copyright. (Received May 2, 2.30 p.m.) QUEBEC, let May. The Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (Sir Charles Pelletier) is dead. [Charles Alphonse Pantaleon Pelletier was bom at Riviere, Ouelle, in 1837, and was educated at St. Anne La Pocatiere College and Laval University. He was called to the Bar in 1860, and made a Q.C. in 1879. Twice he was elected president of the Society of Jean Baptisto (National Society of French Canadians), and for several years was a major of the 9th Battalion, or "Voltigeurs de Quebec," which battalion- he commanded during the Fenian raid in 1866. In 1869 he entered politics, and from 1896 to 1901 was Speaker of the Senate of Canada-. From 1905 to 1908 he was a judge- of the Superior Court of the province of Quebec, a position he resigned to become Lieutenant-Governor.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 102, 2 May 1911, Page 8
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