Francois-Marie Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier

  General Notes:

Chevalier deLorimier was a notary who fought as a Patriote and Frere chasseur for the independence of Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) in the Lower Canada Rebellion. For these actions, he was incarcerated at the Montreal Pied-du-Courant Prison and was hanged at the site by the British authorities.

Mother Wilma Van Brocklin Sukup always said that an ancester was guillotened by King Henry of England.

I believe by the article that he was hung.

On January 11, 1839 De Lorimier and three of his comrades (two of whom managed to escape before being executed; the other was Chevrier Benard) appeared before the British Council of War. Refused his request for a trial in a civilian court, De Lorimier apparently effectively defended himself and challenged the crown's evidence. However, Jean-Baptiste-Henri Brien, one of his co-accused and terrified of the scaffold, signed a confession incriminating De Lorimier and others and the British authorities, having failing to seize the main leaders of the rebellion, arguably pursued his death to make an example. On January 21st De Lorimier and his companions were found guilty of high treason and sentenced to be hanged which took place on February 15, 1839.

De Lorimier was born in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada. He was executed with such people as the French-born Charles Hindelang.

De Lorimier Avenue honours his memory in Montreal.