{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{distinguish|Joe Royall}} {{About|the lieutenant governor of the Northwest Territories|others with the same name|Joseph Royal (disambiguation)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Joseph Royal | honorific_suffix = | image = Joseph Royal.jpg | image_size = | office = 5th Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories | predecessor = Edgar Dewdney | successor = Charles Herbert Mackintosh | term_start = 1 July 1888 | term_end = 31 October 1893 | monarch = Victoria | governor_general = The Lord Stanley of Preston<br />The Earl of Aberdeen | constituency_MP2 = Provencher | parliament2 = Canadian | predecessor2 = Joseph Dubuc | successor2 = Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière | term_start2 = 30 December 1879 | term_end2 = 1 July 1888 | order3 = 1st | office3 = Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba | predecessor3 = Position established | successor3 = Curtis James Bird | term_start3 = 15 March 1871 | term_end3 = 21 February 1872 | office4 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Francis Xavier West | predecessor4 = Constituency established | successor4 = district abolished | term_start4 = 27 December 1870 | term_end4 = 16 December 1879 | cabinet = '''Provincial''':<br />Minister of Public Works<br />Attorney General<br />Provincial Secretary | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1837|5|7}} | birth_place = Repentigny, Lower Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1902|8|23|1837|5|7}} | death_place = Montreal, Quebec | spouse = {{marriage|Agnès Bruyère|1857}} | party = Conservative | relations = | children = 8 | alma_mater = | occupation = Journalist, lawyer, businessman | signature = Joseph Royal Signature.svg | profession = Politician | footnotes = <ref name=CPC>{{cite book | title=Canadian Parliamentary Companion | url=https://archive.org/details/canadianparliam03gemmgoog | year=1889 | first=J. A. | last=Gemmill | publisher=J Durie and Son}}</ref> }} '''Joseph Royal''' (7 May 1837 &ndash; 23 August 1902) was a Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, businessman, and Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories.

==Early life and career== Royal studied at St. Mary's Jesuit college in Montreal.<ref name=MHS>{{cite web | url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/royal_j.shtml | title=Joseph Royal (1837–1902) | publisher=Manitoba Historical Society | date=1 April 2010 | access-date=3 February 2011}}</ref> His early publishing career included a term as editor of Montreal's ''Minerve'' from 1857 to 1859. He then founded and published other Montreal-based publications such as ''L'Ordre'' (1859–1860), ''La Revue Canadienne'' (1864) and ''Le Nouveau Monde'' (1867, editor-in-chief). Soon after moving to Manitoba, Royal founded ''Le Metis'' and operated that publication from 1871 to 1882 after which its new owner changed its title to ''Le Manitoba''.<ref name=CPC />

His legal career began in Lower Canada where he was called to that province's bar in 1864. He joined the Manitoba bar in 1871 after moving to that province. In 1880, Royal left legal practice.<ref name=CPC />

==Political career== In the 1870 Manitoba provincial elections, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the riding St François Xavier West, and in 1871 he was unanimously chosen speaker. From 1874 to 1876, he was the Provincial Secretary and Minister of Public Works. From 1876 to 1878, he was the Attorney General. In 1878, he was the Minister of Public Works.<ref name=MHS />

In an 1879 by-election, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing the Manitoba riding of Provencher. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1882 and 1887.

Royal was appointed to, and served as a member on the Temporary North-West Council, the first legislature of the Northwest Territories from 1872 to 1876. He would later serve as the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1888 to 1893.

==Later life== In December 1894, Royal returned to ''La Minerve'' where he became editor-in-chief. After publishing other books, he died in Montreal in 1902.<ref name=MHS />

==Works== * ''Vie Politique de Sir Louis H Lafontaine'' (1864)<ref name=CPC /> * ''La Vallée de la Mantawa'' (Montreal, 1869)<ref name=MHS /> * ''Le Canada, république ou colonie?'' (Montreal, 1894)<ref name=MHS /> * ''Histoire du Canada 1841 à 1867'' (Montreal, 1909) – published after death<ref name=MHS />

== Electoral history == {{1887 Canadian federal election/Provencher}} {{1882 Canadian federal election/Provencher}} {{Canadian election result/top|CA|30 December 1879|by=yes|percent=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Joseph Royal|652|62.6}} {{CANelec|XX|Unknown|John Molloy|269|25.8}} {{CANelec|XX|Unknown|S. Hamelin|121|11.6}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|1,042|100.0}} {{Canadian election result/source|Called upon Mr. Dubuc being appointed Puisne Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba.}} {{end}}

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==External links== *{{Canadabio|ID=7041}} *{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=627}} * [https://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/lt-gov/j-royal.html The Honourable Joseph Royal, 1888–93 at the Legislative Assembly of Alberta]

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