sentences:  Two months later, Lord Gosford appointed him to the Executive Council of Lower Canada.When the Lower Canada Rebellion broke out, Quesnel was condemned as a "vendu" by the Patriotes and his brother, Joseph-Timoléon, was forced to flee L’Acadie and give up his magistrate’s commission.In 1840, Quesnel headed a delegation still opposing the union of Upper and Lower Canada.