keep registers of births, marriages and deaths within their community. His cousin Henry Judah was later elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Champlain. Death Ezekiel Hart died on 16 September 1843 at Trois-Rivières, at the age of 76. A prominent member of the community, he was accorded an impressive funeral in which all the stores in Trois-Rivières closed, and the 81st Foot paid him final honours. He was buried in the second Jewish cemetery in Trois-Rivières. Hart had dictated his last will on 20 June 1839. At the time of his death, he lived in an enormous well-furnished house with 16 rooms. He was survived by his ten children: Samuel Becancour, Harriet, Aaron Ezekiel, Esther Elizabeth, Miriam, Carolina Athalia, Henry, Julia, Abraham Kitzinger, and Adolphus Mordecai. In October 1909, the remains of Ezekiel Hart and others buried in the Jewish cemetery on Prison Street in Trois-Rivières were moved to Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Legacy and honours The Hart family papers held by the American Jewish Historical Society Archives in Waltham, Massachusetts, and at the McCord Museum in Montreal, Quebec. The Château Ramezay owns an oil portrait of him. The Member from Trois-Rivières, a one-act play about the life of Ezekiel Hart, was written in 1959 by Maxwell Charles Cohen. A Heritage Minute mentioning the Hart Affair was filmed and broadcast in the 1990s. In 2002, a commemorative plaque was erected to Ezekiel Hart by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. A plaque was commemorated to him at the Patrimoine de Trois-Rivières. A street in Trois-Rivières was named for him (Rue Hart). See also Antisemitism in Canada History of the Jews in Canada Electoral firsts in Canada Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada Timeline of Quebec history (1791 to 1840) References Footnotes External links 1767 births 1843 deaths 19th-century Canadian businesspeople 19th-century Canadian politicians 19th-century Jews Anglophone Quebec people Antisemitism in Canada Antisemitism in Quebec Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery Businesspeople from Quebec Canadian people of English-Jewish descent Canadian people of German-Jewish descent Canadian people of the War of 1812 Ezekiel Hart Jewish Canadian politicians Jews and Judaism in Quebec Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada People from Trois-Rivières Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople Pre-Confederation Quebec people 19th-century Canadian Jews