Masson, L. R. (Louis Rodrigue), 1833-1903

Louis Rodrigue Masson (baptized Louis-François-Roderick) was born in 1833 in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, and died in November 1903, in Montreal. He was the son of Joseph Masson and Marie-Geneviève-Sophie Raymond and had two brothers named Wilfrid and Isidore-Édouard-Candide. In 1856, Masson married Louise-Rachel McKenzie, the daughter of Marie-Louise Trottier Desrivières and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander McKenzie of Terrebonne. They had ten children, five of whom reached adulthood. In 1883, Masson married Cecile Burroughs, the daughter of Léda Larue and John Henry Ross Burroughs, who was a prothonotary at the Superior Court of Quebec. They had three children. Masson became head of the Masson clan and administrator of its assets, including the property, the seigneurial mill, and the various enterprises bequeathed to him by his father. Although the seigneurial regime was abolished in 1854, the Masson family remained identified as a seigneurial family. In the unrest that followed when Rupert’s Land was acquired by Canada in 1869, Masson opposed his colleagues in the name of the rights of the Métis and First Nations. In 1871, he defended the Catholics that demanded that the federal government disallow the provincial law.

Revised on June 11, 2024, by Leah Louttit-Bunker

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