George-Édouard Desbarats

[1] Joseph's son Pierre-Édouard co-purchased the Nouvelle Imprimière (New Printing Office) from William Vondenvelden in 1798; the printer was responsible for printing the Lower Canadian Statutes, and also published newspapers such as the Quebec Mercury and other publications.

[3] On his father's death Desbarats became co-Queen's Printer with Malcolm Cameron for the Province of Canada.

[5] It was burned down by arson in 1869;[2] among the losses were the lithographic plates for a scholarly on Samuel de Champlain that his grandson Peter Desbarats stated was to have been his "monument as a publisher".

[6] Prime Minister John A. Macdonald made Desbarats the first official printer[3][4] of the Dominion of Canada that year;[2] this made him an official government employee, as per the Act Respecting the Office of the Queen's Printer and the Public Printing effected 1 October 1869.

[2] Desbarats and Leggo were responsible for a number of pioneering printing, including the photoelectrotyping process Leggotype, the first halftone photography reproduction in commercial printing, and photolithographic techniques at a time when the technology was still rare.