Étienne Parent
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Étienne Parent was a Canadian journalist, politician and government official. A French-Canadian nationalist, he wrote extensively on political theory and governance during the 1820s and 1830s in vario
Portrait of Étienne Parent
Augustin-Norbert Morin: Parent's classmate, political colleague, and eventual opponent in the Lower Canada Rebellion
Louis-Joseph Papineau, leader of the Parti patriote, Parent's political colleague and eventual opponent during the Lower Canada Rebellion
Lord John Russell, the British Home Secretary who rejected the Ninety-Two Resolutions
Le Canadien
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Le Canadien was a French language newspaper published at various times in Lower Canada, then the Province of Canada, and finally the province of Quebec, at various times in the 19th century. It went t
Étienne Parent
…A French-Canadian nationalist, he wrote extensively on political theory and governance during the 1820s and 1830s in various newspapers, particularly Le Canadien, of which he was editor. He was attracted to theories of constitutional governance based on the British constitution, and opposed annexation to the…
Front page of Le Canadien, November 22, 1806, vol. 1, no 1.