Joseph-Élisée Beaudet
Canadian politician
Joseph-Élisée Beaudet (October 25, 1832 – February 15, 1910) was a businessman and political figure in Quebec. He represented Chicoutimi-Saguenay in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1880 to 1881 as a Conservative. His name also appears as Élisée Beaudet.
He was born on October 25, 1832, in Lotbinière, Lower Canada, the son of Amable Beaudet and Félicité Chabot. He was partner with Eugène Chinic in the firm Chinic et Beaudet, later the Chinic Hardware Company of Québec. Beaudet was also co-owner of a sawmill at Betsiamites and director and vice-president for the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway. He later served as a customs official at Quebec City. He was married twice: to Éléonore-Georgianne Hardy in 1859 and to Emma Bourgeois in 1906.
He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1880 by-election held after William Evan Price resigned his seat for health reasons.
“Joseph-Élisée Beaudet” enters the record as canadian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Joseph-Élisée, Beaudet and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Joseph-Élisée Beaudet” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Joseph-Élisée, Beaudet and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6280714. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1832, 1910, 1880 and 1881.
Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Joseph-Élisée Beaudet”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Joseph-Élisée Beaudet primary sources, Joseph-Élisée Beaudet archive and Joseph-Élisée research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Joseph-Élisée Beaudet”?
- Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Joseph-Élisée Beaudet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.