15th Parliament of Lower Canada
The 15th Parliament of Lower Canada was in session from March 21, 1835, to March 27, 1838. Elections to the Legislative Assembly in Lower Canada had been held in October 1834. The lower house was dissolved following the Lower Canada Rebellion and Lower Canada was administered by an appointed Special Council until the Act of Union in 1840 established a new lower chamber for the Province of Canada. All sessions were held at Quebec City.
The 15th Parliament of Lower Canada was elected in 1834. The general election of 1834 allowed voters of Lower Canada to choose 88 deputies, spread over a total of 46 constituencies -- four single member districts (Magantic, Drummond, Montmorency and William-Henry) and 42 2-seat districts.
Riding | Member |
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Beauce | Antoine-Charles Taschereau |
Beauce | Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau[1] |
Joseph-André Taschereau (1835) | |
Beauharnois | Charles Archambault |
Beauharnois | Jacob De Witt |
Bellechasse | Augustin-Norbert Morin |
Bellechasse | Nicolas Boissonnault |
Berthier | Alexis Mousseau |
Berthier | Jacques Deligny[2] |
Norbert Éno (1837) | |
Bonaventure | Édouard Thibaudeau[3] |
James McCracken (1836) | |
Bonaventure | Joseph-François Deblois |
Chambly | Louis Lacoste |
Chambly | Louis-Michel Viger |
Champlain | Olivier Trudel |
Pierre-Antoine Dorion | |
Deux-Montagnes | William Henry Scott |
Deux-Montagnes | Jean-Joseph Girouard |
Dorchester | Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin |
Dorchester | Jean Bouffard |
Drummond | Edward Toomy |
Drummond [4] | Henry Menut (1836) |
Gaspé | John Le Boutillier |
Gaspé | William Power |
Kamouraska | Amable Dionne[5] |
Alexandre Fraser (1835) | |
Kamouraska | Pierre Canac, dit Marquis |
L'Acadie | Merritt Hotchkiss |
L'Acadie | Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté |
Lachenaie | Charles Courteau |
Lachenaie | Jean-Marie Rochon[6] |
Ludger Duvernay (1837) | |
Laprairie | Jean-Moïse Raymond |
Laprairie | Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal |
L'Assomption | Édouard-Étienne Rodier |
L'Assomption | Jean-Baptiste Meilleur |
L'Islet | Jean-Baptiste Fortin |
L'Islet | Jean-Charles Létourneau |
Lotbinière | Louis Méthot |
Lotbinière | Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël |
Mégantic | John Greaves Clapham |
Missisquoi | Ephraim Knight |
Missisquoi | William Baker |
Montmorency | Elzéar Bédard[7] |
Nicolas Lefrançois (1836) | |
Montmorency [4] | Vital Têtu (1836) |
Montreal County | Côme-Séraphin Cherrier |
Montreal County | Louis-Joseph Papineau (resigned immediately)[8] |
André Jobin (1835)[8] | |
Montreal East | Joseph Roy |
Montreal East | James Leslie |
Montreal West | Louis-Joseph Papineau |
Montreal West | Robert Nelson |
Nicolet | Jean-Baptiste Proulx |
Nicolet | Louis Bourdages[9] |
Jean-Baptiste Hébert (1835) | |
Orléans | Alexis Godbout |
Orléans | Jean-Baptiste Cazeau |
Ottawa | Baxter Bowman |
Ottawa | James Blackburn |
Portneuf | Hector-Simon Huot |
Portneuf | François-Xavier Larue |
Quebec County | Louis-Théodore Besserer |
Quebec County | Jean Blanchet |
Quebec (Lower Town) | George Vanfelson[10] |
John Munn (1837) | |
Quebec (Lower Town) | Hippolyte Dubord |
Quebec (Upper Town) | René-Édouard Caron[11] |
Andrew Stuart (1836) | |
Quebec (Upper Town) | Amable Berthelot |
Richelieu | Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury[12] |
Richelieu | Jacques Dorion |
Rimouski | Jean-Baptiste Taché |
Rimouski | Louis Bertrand |
Rouville | Pierre-Martial Bardy |
Rouville | Pierre Careau |
Saguenay | François-Xavier Tessier[13] |
Charles Drolet (1836) | |
Saguenay | André Cimon |
Saint-Hyacinthe | Thomas Boutillier |
Saint-Hyacinthe | Louis Raynaud, dit Blanchard |
Saint-Maurice | Valère Guillet[14] |
François Lesieur Desaulniers (1836) | |
Pierre Bureau[15] | |
Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie (1836) | |
Shefford | Alphonso Wells |
Shefford | Samuel Wood |
Sherbrooke | John Moore |
Sherbrooke | Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy |
Stanstead | John Grannis[16] |
Moses French Colby (1837) | |
Stanstead | Marcus Child |
Terrebonne | Séraphin Bouc[17] |
André-Benjamin Papineau (1837) | |
Terrebonne | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine |
Trois-Rivières | Edward Barnard |
Trois-Rivières | René-Joseph Kimber |
Vaudreuil | Charles-Ovide Perrault |
Vaudreuil | Charles Rocbrune, dit Larocque |
Verchères | Pierre Amiot |
Verchères | Joseph-Toussaint Drolet |
William-Henry | John Pickel |
Yamaska | Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan |
Yamaska | Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour |
References
- ^ resigned in November 1835; Joseph-André Taschereau was elected in a by-election held in December 1835.
- ^ died in January 1837; Norbert Éno was elected in a by-election held in March 1837.
- ^ died in August 1836; James McCracken was elected in a by-election held in December 1836.
- ^ a b second seat added in 1836
- ^ resigned in May 1835; Alexandre Fraser was elected in a by-election held in June 1835.
- ^ Died in February 1837; Ludger Duvernay was elected in a by-election held in May 1837.
- ^ resigned to accept a position as judge in February 1836; Nicolas Lefrançois was elected in a by-election held in March 1836.
- ^ a b Louis-Joseph Papineau was elected in Montreal County and Montreal West, choosing to represent the latter; André Jobin was elected in a by-election held in November 1835.
- ^ died in January 1835; Jean-Baptiste Hébert was elected in a by-election held in April 1835.
- ^ resigned his seat in June 1837; John Munn was elected in a by-election held in July 1837.
- ^ resigned in March 1836; Andrew Stuart was elected in a by-election held in March 1836.
- ^ resigned his seat in August 1837 after being appointed to Legislative Council
- ^ died in December 1835; Charles Drolet was elected in a by-election held in February 1836.
- ^ resigned in June 1836; François Lesieur Desaulniers was elected in a by-election held in August 1836.
- ^ died in June 1836; Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie was elected in a by-election held in August 1836.
- ^ resigned in October 1836; Moses French Colby was elected in a by-election held in January 1837.
- ^ died in July 1837; André-Benjamin Papineau was elected in a by-election held in September 1837.
External links
- Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)
- Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada ..., John Neilson (1835)
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