John Neilson (1776-1848), was a Scotch-Quebecois editor of the newspaper La Gazette de Québec/The Quebec Gazette and politician.

Born in Dornal , Scotland, Neilson arrived in Quebec city in 1791 to work for his uncle's printing company, which he inherited in 1793.

Elected a Member of Parliament in a partial election in 1818, he was re-elected until 1830 and supported the Parti canadien. In 1823, he accompanied Louis-Joseph Papineau to London to lobby against the Union project in the name of the majority of the MPs in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. Again, in 1828 he was part of a delegation sent to London (UK) to present his party's demands for reform. In 1830, he took his distance from the Parti patriote, which he considered to be too radical. He opposed the Ninety-Two Resolutions of 1834, a rewrite of the 1828 demands for reform with a radical tone. He opposed the Union after its enactment.

See also

• Timeline of Quebec history
• Patriotes Rebellion

External link

• John Neilson biography - National Assembly of Quebec (in French)