John Robinson Hamilton

His mother later married a French-Canadian, François Pellet, which may have accounted for Hamilton's fluent bilingualism.

[1] He studied law with Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal, and then Andrew Stuart and Henry Black, in Quebec City.

Lengthy debate occurred in the Assembly, which finally ruled in December 1832 that Hamilton had been elected.

[1][3] In the Assembly, Hamilton took an independent approach, sometimes supporting the Château Clique Tories, and sometimes the Parti patriote.

Following the rebellion in Lower Canada, and the similar rebellion in 1837 in Upper Canada (now Ontario), the British government decided to merge the two provinces into a single province, as recommended by Lord Durham in the Durham Report.

In the first session, he was an opponent of the new union, but also tended to support the government of the Governor-General, Lord Sydenham.