Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (22 November 1721 – 27 October 1824 (or 24 October 1824 ) was a Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman, who served as aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe in Lower Canada.
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