Moïse (Moyse) Fortier (November 6, 1815 – October 17, 1877) was a Quebec businessman and member of Parliament. He was a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Yamaska from 1867 to 1872, defeating Joseph Provencher.
He was born in Saint-Léon in 1815, the son of Charles Fortier and Felecite Blais.[1]
He became a merchant at Saint-David-d'Yamaska and was also president of the Richelieu, Drummond and Arthabaska Railway, later acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway. He served as mayor of Saint-David for 22 years.
In 1861, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in Yamaska; he was re-elected in 1863 and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons after the Canadian Confederation, which created a new country named Canada.
He died at Saint-David-d'Yamaska in 1877. He was married to Mathilde Paradis, by whom he had 11 children, one of which was Dr. L.-A. Fortier, who married to Marie-Antoinette Lambert, daughter of Mary Victoria Yale and Major F.-X. Lambert.[1]
Dr. Fortier's sons were lawyer Maurice Fortier and King's Counsel Jacob Yale Fortier, great-grandsons of Major George Henry Yale, 1st Mayor of Louiseville.[2] Others brothers of Fortier included merchant J. J. O Fortier, Dr. Alma Fortier and Rev. Jacob Fortier, Vicar of Yamachiche.[3]
His sisters married to notary Charles Archambault and Dr. Brousseau.[4]