Louis-Tancrède Bouthillier (1796-1881)

He was born in Montreal, the son of a successful merchant who emigrated from La Rochelle in France in 1785. his sister was married to Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave, a prominent fur trader and politician. He began his career working for his father who manufactured potash and pearl ash. In 1832, he was appointed a director of Trinity House and Inspector of potash in Montreal. In the following year, he bought eight lots in Montreal, one of which was in the Côte Sainte-Catherine where he built Outre-Mont., from which the present borough of "Outremont" takes its name.

In 1834, his father-in-law died and he inherited the impressive Maison Beaubien overlooking the Champ de Mars in Montreal. In 1835, he joined his new neighbor, David Ross, as a Commissioner of the Lachine Canal and three years later (1838) was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands. From 1850, he held the lucrative position of Collector of Customs for the Port of Montreal from which he resigned in 1863 to become Sheriff of Montreal. The following year (1864), he was elected President of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. In 1830, he married Françoise-Geneviève, daughter of Benjamin Trottier-Desrivières-Beaubien. In 1862, he purchased his wife's uncle's debt-ridden property, the Manoir de Sabrevois de Bleury, that he divided up and sold off in lots. He was survived by his two sons, Charles-Frontenac Bouthillier, of Chateau Bleuri, and Henri Bouthillier.