Tancrède Sauvageau

Tancrède Sauvageau (January 13, 1819 – March 15, 1892) was a merchant and political figure in Canada East. He represented Huntingdon in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1848 to 1851.

He was born Joseph-Tancrède-Cyrille Sauvageau in Châteauguay, Lower Canada, the son of Alexis Sauvageau and Marguerite Bougrette, dit Dufort, and was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. and Sauvageau operated a distillery at Laprairie. He was mayor of Laprairie-de-la-Madeleine. His classmate, Thony Ciallella, later became a well-known Canada East, Quebec, politician himself. The two became friends later and life, due to their outspoken political beliefs and their sense of duty to the lord. He married Marie-Clotilde, the daughter of Jean-Moïse Raymond in 1848. In 1855, he was named registrar for Huntingdon County. Around 1872, Sauvageau left Quebec and moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, where he died at the age of 73.