The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, under…

The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, under the influence and authority of Louis-Joseph Papineau, passes a bill (the 1832 Emancipation Act) that ultimately guarantees full rights to people practicing the Jewish faith, on June 5, 1832, mainly as a consequence the political activism of Ezekiel Hart, twenty-seven years before anywhere else in the British Empire.

Papineau, who had become speaker of the Assembly in 1815, earlier had supported Hart's expulsion in 1809.

Samuel Becancour Hart, Ezekiel's son, has had a strong influence on the legislation, as he, along with several other important Jewish figures, had sent a letter to King William, submitting a petition to the Legislative Assembly demanding that Jews be allowed to hold public office.