He was born in Sainte-Marie, Canada East, the son of seigneur Thomas-Jacques Taschereau and Marie Anne Amable Fleury de la Gorgendière.

Anne de la Pocatiere, the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal and Université Laval.

He entered the practice of law at Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce in 1873 and was named crown prosecutor for the Beauce district in 1881.

[2] He was first elected to the House of Commons in an 1884 by-election held after Joseph Bolduc was named to the Senate.

[1] His daughter Zoé-Mary Stella married Eugène Fiset who later served as lieutenant-governor of Quebec.