Robert Christie (Lower Canada politician)
Robert Christie was a lawyer, journalist, historian and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East. Born in Nova Scotia, he moved to Lower Canada as a young man. Elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, he generally supported the Parti bureaucrates, or government group. He opposed the union of Lower Canada with Upper Canada, but was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. As a member, he remained opposed to the union and was an independent, not supporting any particular party. He had a reputation for being hot-headed, but also incorruptible.
Robert Christie
Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Quebec, where Christie married Monique-Olivier Doucet
View of Quebec from the River St Lawrence, 1827
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, meeting in the Bishop's Chapel, Quebec
The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec and the Labrador region of the current Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
William Lyon Mackenzie, rebellion chief in Upper Canada
Louis-Joseph Papineau, rebellion chief in Lower Canada