Biography of Joseph Tasse, M.P.

One of the rising young men of much promise in the Province of Ontario, is Joseph Tasse, one of the members of Parliament for Ottawa. He is a native of the Province of Quebec, son of Joseph Tasse, senior, and Adelina, nee Daoust, and was born in Montreal, on the 23rd of October, 1848. He received a complete classical education at Rigaud, county of Vaudreuil; studied law one year, (186s-66) with Rouer Roy, Q.C., Montreal; a short time with Messrs. Palmer, Weed and Holcomb, of Plattsburg, N.Y., and one year at Ottawa, and then abandoned the law for journalism, which … Read more