Ignace Gill (March 15, 1808 – September 1, 1865) was a businessman and political figure in

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. He was born in

Saint-François-du-Lac Saint-François-du-Lac () is a community in the Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,957. It is located at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence and ...

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in 1808. He worked as a clerk in stores at Baie-du-Febvre and then operated his own store at Saint-François-de-Sales from around 1830 to 1850. He was named justice of the peace in 1835. Gill later became involved in the timber trade and administered the Pierreville

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y for François-Xavier Biron. He also served as postmaster at Saint-François-du-Lac. In 1854, he was elected to the

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for Yamaska and was reelected in 1857. He served as mayor of Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville in 1862–3. He died in Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville in 1865. His son Charles-Ignace later represented Yamaska in the Canadian House of Commons and the Quebec legislative assembly.

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Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Ignace 1808 births 1865 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East 19th-century mayors of places in Quebec Canadian justices of the peace People from Centre-du-Québec