About: Alexandre Menut     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:Person, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FAlexandre_Menut

Alexandre Menut (died after March 1804) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in France and came to Quebec as a cook for Governor James Murray, later performing the same job for Governor Guy Carleton. In 1768, he opened an inn at Quebec City; he opened a tavern the following year. He was a member of the militia but did not participate in the defence of the town during the American invasion of 1775–6; Benedict Arnold set up headquarters there. His inn suffered damages during the invasion and he opened a new establishment in 1782. He was a member of the Quebec Fire Society. In 1796, Menut was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Cornwallis, supporting the parti canadien. He was reelected in 1800 and generally supported the English party.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Alexandre Menut (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Alexandre Menut (died after March 1804) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in France and came to Quebec as a cook for Governor James Murray, later performing the same job for Governor Guy Carleton. In 1768, he opened an inn at Quebec City; he opened a tavern the following year. He was a member of the militia but did not participate in the defence of the town during the American invasion of 1775–6; Benedict Arnold set up headquarters there. His inn suffered damages during the invasion and he opened a new establishment in 1782. He was a member of the Quebec Fire Society. In 1796, Menut was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Cornwallis, supporting the parti canadien. He was reelected in 1800 and generally supported the English party. (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • Alexandre Menut (died after March 1804) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in France and came to Quebec as a cook for Governor James Murray, later performing the same job for Governor Guy Carleton. In 1768, he opened an inn at Quebec City; he opened a tavern the following year. He was a member of the militia but did not participate in the defence of the town during the American invasion of 1775–6; Benedict Arnold set up headquarters there. His inn suffered damages during the invasion and he opened a new establishment in 1782. He was a member of the Quebec Fire Society. In 1796, Menut was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Cornwallis, supporting the parti canadien. He was reelected in 1800 and generally supported the English party. He died between March 1804 and March 1806. His son Henry also later served in the legislative assembly. (en)
gold:hypernym
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 44 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software