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Étienne poulin alfred girard 21 april 1890 mount johnson -lrb- mont-saint-grégoire -rrb- , canada east montreal , quebec liberal member of the legislative assembly of quebec for rouville 13 march 1848 1886 edmond lareau.png edmond lareau
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edmond lareau

edmond lareau -lrb- march 13 , 1848 -- april 21 , 1890 -rrb- was a lawyer , author , journalist and political figure in quebec .
he represented rouville in the legislative assembly of quebec from 1886 to 1890 as a liberal .
he was born pierre-bénoni-evremond lareau in mount johnson , canada east , the son of pierre-bénoni lareau and odile sylvestre , and was educated at collège sainte-marie-de-monnoir and victoria college in cobourg , ontario .
lareau was admitted to the quebec bar in 1870 and set up practice in montreal .
he was granted a bachelor of civil law by mcgill college in 1874 .
lareau became a professor of law at the college .
he was named queen 's counsel in 1879 .
in 1880 , he married marguerite robillard .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the house of commons in 1882 .
lareau contributed to the journals `` la patrie '' and `` le temps '' and was coeditor of the `` lower canada jurist '' with john sprott archibald .
he was also editor for `` le pays '' from 1870 to 1872 .
lareau published a number of works on the subject of history and law , including : the `` le droit civil canadien suivant l'ordre établi par les codes , précédé d'une histoire générale du droit canadien '' , with gonzalve doutre -lrb- 1872 -rrb- the `` histoire de la littérature canadienne '' , a history of canadian literature -lrb- 1874 -rrb- .
the `` histoire du droit canadien depuis les origines de la colonie jusqu ' à nos jours '' , a two volume history of canadian law published in 1888 and 1889 .
he died in montreal at the age of 42 and was buried in the notre dame des neiges cemetery .
