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Henri Bourassa
Damien-Claude Bélanger,
Department of History,
McGill University
Journalist and politician, was born at Montreal.
The son of artist and poet Napoléon Bourassa and the grandson of Louis-Joseph Papineau, he was mainly educated by private tutors.
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In the mids he studied briefly at Montreal's École polytechnique and at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts. The young Henri quickly turned to journalism and politics, and became the mayor of Montebello, Quebec, in , and the founding editor of L'Interprète of Clarence Creek, Ontario, in He sat as a Liberal in the House of Commons for the riding of Labelle, Quebec, from to , and was the secretary of the Anglo-American Commissions of Quebec () and Washington ().
Unwilling to accept any Canadian participation in the South African War, Bourassa broke with Sir Wilfrid Laurier and resigned his seat in He was re-elected shortly thereafter as an indepe