Joseph Royal

Quality 0.50 · 0 views · Updated 2 months ago

Canadian politician

title: "Joseph Royal" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1837-births", "1902-deaths", "19th-century-canadian-journalists", "19th-century-canadian-male-writers", "burials-at-notre-dame-des-neiges-cemetery", "canadian-roman-catholics", "conservative-party-of-canada-(1867–1942)-mps", "lawyers-in-manitoba", "lawyers-in-quebec", "lieutenant-governors-of-the-northwest-territories", "members-of-the-executive-council-of-manitoba", "members-of-the-house-of-commons-of-canada-from-manitoba", "19th-century-members-of-the-legislative-assembly-of-the-northwest-territories", "people-from-repentigny,-quebec", "progressive-conservative-party-of-manitoba-mlas", "speakers-of-the-legislative-assembly-of-manitoba", "19th-century-members-of-the-legislative-assembly-of-manitoba", "19th-century-members-of-the-house-of-commons-of-canada"] description: "Canadian politician" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Royal" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Canadian politician ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox officeholder"]

Field	Value
name	Joseph Royal
image	Joseph Royal.jpg
office	5th Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories
predecessor	Edgar Dewdney
successor	Charles Herbert Mackintosh
term_start	1 July 1888
term_end	31 October 1893
monarch	Victoria
governor_general	The Lord Stanley of Preston
The Earl of Aberdeen
constituency_MP2	Provencher
parliament2	Canadian
predecessor2	Joseph Dubuc
successor2	Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière
term_start2	30 December 1879
term_end2	1 July 1888
order3	1st
office3	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
predecessor3	Position established
successor3	Curtis James Bird
term_start3	15 March 1871
term_end3	21 February 1872
office4	Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Francis Xavier West
predecessor4	Constituency established
successor4	district abolished
term_start4	27 December 1870
term_end4	16 December 1879
cabinet	Provincial:
Minister of Public Works
Attorney General
Provincial Secretary
birth_date
birth_place	Repentigny, Lower Canada
death_date
death_place	Montreal, Quebec
nationality	Canadian
spouse
party	Conservative
children	8
residence	Montreal, Quebec
occupation	Journalist, lawyer, businessman
signature	Joseph Royal Signature.svg
profession	Politician
footnotes
::

::callout[type=note] the lieutenant governor of the Northwest Territories ::

Early life and career

Royal studied at St. Mary's Jesuit college in Montreal. His early publishing career included a term as editor of Montreal's Minerve from 1857 to 1859. He then founded and published other Montreal-based publications such as L'Ordre (1859–1860), La Revue Canadienne (1864) and Le Nouveau Monde (1867, editor-in-chief). Soon after moving to Manitoba, Royal founded Le Metis and operated that publication from 1871 to 1882 after which its new owner changed its title to Le Manitoba.

His legal career began in Lower Canada where he was called to that province's bar in 1864. He joined the Manitoba bar in 1871 after moving to that province. In 1880, Royal left legal practice.

Political career

In the 1870 Manitoba provincial elections, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the riding St François Xavier West, and in 1871 he was unanimously chosen speaker. From 1874 to 1876, he was the Provincial Secretary and Minister of Public Works. From 1876 to 1878, he was the Attorney General. In 1878, he was the Minister of Public Works.

In an 1879 by-election, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing the Manitoba riding of Provencher. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1882 and 1887.

Royal was appointed to, and served as a member on the Temporary North-West Council, the first legislature of the Northwest Territories from 1872 to 1876. He would later serve as the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1888 to 1893.

Later life

In December 1894, Royal returned to La Minerve where he became editor-in-chief. After publishing other books, he died in Montreal in 1902.

Works

Vie Politique de Sir Louis H Lafontaine (1864)
La Vallée de la Mantawa (Montreal, 1869)
Le Canada, république ou colonie? (Montreal, 1894)
Histoire du Canada 1841 à 1867 (Montreal, 1909) – published after death

Electoral history

References

Gemmill, J. A.. (1889). "Canadian Parliamentary Companion". J Durie and Son.
(1 April 2010). "Joseph Royal (1837–1902)". Manitoba Historical Society.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::