Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, (1797 - 1880) born in Mallow, Ireland, was a Patriote doctor and journalist. He studied medecine in Paris and immigrated to Lower Canada in 1823 where he became involved in the political movement of the Patriotes. He began practicing medicine in Montreal as of 1827.
A close friend of Louis-Joseph Papineau, he became the editor of the Montreal Vindicator in 1832, and showed to be an irreducible adversary of Lord Gosford and the status quo.
In 1837, a mandate of arrest was emitted against him, and he sought refuge at St-Denis, then crossed the American border with Papineau. Later, he became secretary-archivist of the State of New York, and died there in 1880.
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