Jean-Baptiste Durocher

Jean-Baptiste Durocher (August 15, 1754 – July 8, 1811) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.

He entered business as a merchant at Montreal and was also involved in the fur trade at Detroit.

In 1782, Durocher married Marie-Joseph, the daughter of Charles Curot; she died in 1785.

In 1792, he married Charlotte, the daughter of merchant Eustache Trottier Desrivières Beaubien and the niece of François Malhiot.

Governor James Henry Craig relieved him of this post in 1810 because he support a bill which made judges ineligible to serve in the assembly.