Charles Lefort.
Charles Lefort was the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec during the Crisis Years of the late 1830s and early 1840s. Lefort headed the Quebec delegation to the Brant Convention of September and October 1841, when the Conservatives of the four main confederations of the Confederation of North America met in Brant, Indiana to coordinate a response to the troubles that had afflicted their various countries since the Panic of 1836.
Together with his colleagues John Dix and Franz Freund of the Northern Confederation and Willie Lloyd of the Southern Confederation, Lefort believed that the confederations of the C.N.A. needed to join together under a central government. The Brant resolves also called for the Britannic Design to be amended to create a more unified nation. Together with the earlier Concordia Convention held by members of the various Liberal Parties, the Brant Convention led directly to the meeting of the Burgoyne Conference of 1842 and the drafting of the Second Britannic Design.
Charles Lefort does not have an entry in Sobel's index.
Sobel's source for Lefort's participation in the Brant Convention is Francis James' Decision at Brant (Mexico City, 1967).