| Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871) was chosen Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1815. He became the Leader of the Patriots who, in 1834, attempted to reform the political institutions of Lower Canada (Quebec) by drafting the Ninety-two Resolutions. The resolutions included demands for control of revenues by the Assembly and an elected rather than British-appointed Legislative Council. This daguerreotype was taken about 1852, probably by Montréal photographer Thomas Coffin Doane (1814-1896). Daguerreotypes are images produced on a silver-coated copper plate, a process invented in France by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in 1839. The National Archives holds close to 150 daguerreotypes in its photographic collections. Daguerreotype
C-66899 |