John Neilson
Scots-Quebecer newspaper editor and politician (1776-1848) · Politicians · Died at 71
John Neilson was a journalist, publisher and politician in Lower Canada. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to Lower Canada in 1791 at age 15, to work in his older brother's publishing company in Quebec City. On his brother's death a few years later, he inherited the business.
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Quebec City, 1827, where Neilson lived and had his business
The Quebec Gazette / Gazette de Quebec, June 21, 1764
The Jacques-Cartier River
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, meeting in the Bishop's Chapel, Quebec
Louis-Joseph Papineau, Neilson's onetime ally in the Assembly, later bitter rival
John Neilson, c. 1840Awards
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Neilson became one of the leading publishers and booksellers in Lower Canada and in Upper Canada, selling books in both French and English. He was the editor of the newspaper La Gazette de Québec / The Quebec Gazette, published in French and in English.
