James Walker (Canadian judge)
James Walker (1756 – January 31, 1800) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.
He was probably born in England and later came to Quebec City. Walker took part in the defence of the town against an invasion by the Americans in 1775–6. Soon afterwards, he moved to Montreal and he was admitted to the bar there in 1777. He was elected to the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada for in 1792. In 1794, he was named judge in the for Montreal, Quebec and Trois-Rivières districts. Later that year, Walker was named to the Court of King's Bench at Montreal.
He died in Montreal in 1800.
His daughter Juliana married James Sutherland Rudd, an Anglican priest at William-Henry, and, after Rudd's death, married Jean-Marie Mondelet, a Montreal notary and member of the legislative assembly. Walker's brother Thomas also was a lawyer and a member of the legislative assembly.
External links[]
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- 1756 births
- 1800 deaths
- Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
- Judges in Quebec
- British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War
- English emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec
- Anglophone Quebec people
- Lower Canada judges
- Immigrants to the Province of Quebec (1763–1791)