This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cydebot (talk | contribs) at 18:02, 30 October 2007 (Robot - Moving category Scottish migrants to pre-Confederation Quebec to Scottish immigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec per CFD at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 October 24.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 18:02, 30 October 2007 by Cydebot (talk | contribs) (Robot - Moving category Scottish migrants to pre-Confederation Quebec to Scottish immigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec per CFD at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 October 24.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)David Monro (ca. 1765 – September 3 1834) was a seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. His surname was also sometimes spelled Munro.
He was born around 1765 in Scotland. The date of his arrival at Quebec is not known but, in 1791, he was involved in administering the dissolving of a partnership between Alexander Davison and John Lees. Monro later became partners with Mathew Bell and, with George Davison, they purchased the Saint-Maurice ironworks in 1793. George Davison died in 1799, which left Monro and Bell the sole owners of the ironworks at Saint-Maurice. In 1804, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Saint-Maurice and generally supported the English party.
In 1807, Munro married Catherine MacKenzie, who was the sister of Mathew Bell's wife. He helped found the Quebec Committee of Trade in 1809. He also served in the local militia, becoming major in 1813. Monro served as justice of the peace for Trois-Rivières and Quebec districts. He was a member of the management committee of the Union Company of Quebec, which operated the Union Hotel at Quebec. Monro retired from the business in 1816, selling his share to Bell. In 1817, he bought the seigneury of Champlain with Bell. He was offered a seat on the Legislative Council in that same year but declined as he was planning to leave the province.
He died at Bath in England in 1834.
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| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded byThomas Coffin, Tory Mathew Bell, Tory |
MLA, District of Saint-Maurice with Michel Caron, Parti Canadien 1804–1808 |
Succeeded byThomas Coffin, Tory Michel Caron, Parti Canadien |