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Arthur Buies (baptized Joseph-Marie-Arthur; January 24, 1840 – January 26, 1901) was a Canadian journalist and essayist from Quebec. A member of the Royal Canadian Institute, he severely opposed the Canadian Confederation in 1867.
Biography
Arthur Buies was born on January 24, 1840, in Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal. He was the son of William Buie, a Scottish banker, and Marie-Antoinette-Léocadie d'Estimauville, who was from Old French nobility. Buies was the second child overall.
His father was living in New York at the time of Buies' birth. Afterwards in 1841, his parents moved to Guyana, where his father held his position as the postmaster. He and his sister, Victoire, were left with their great-aunts.
Buies married Marie-Mila Catellier on August 8, 1887, in Notre-Dame Basilica. They would have five children, two of whom died in infancy. Buies died on January 26, 1901, after suffering from an illness he had gotten prior. He was 61. He was buried in the Notre-Dame de Belmont in Sainte-Foy, Quebec City.
