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Pascal Taché, (b. August 30, 1757 – d. June 5, 1830), was the son ofJean Taché, a successful merchant and trader and the patriarch of this important Canadian family.
He was born at the town of Quebec in 1757. In 1785, Pascal married the co-seigneur at Kamouraska. Five years later he received his mother-in-law's share of the seigneury. Pascal managed this seigneury through a period of good expansion as well as exercising his commission as a justice of the peace. He also had a brief foray into politics serving as an elected member of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada for Cornwallis district; he was elected in a 1798 by-election held after the death of the previously elected member.
Pascal's only son, Paschal Taché, inherited his mothers share of the seigneury upon her death in 1813.Father and son co-administered the properties until Pascal's death at Kamouraska in 1830.