10th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island

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The 10th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between November 3, 1818, and 1820.

Prince Edward Island Province of Canada

Prince Edward Island is a province of Canada consisting of the Atlantic island of the same name along with several much smaller islands nearby. Prince Edward Island is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population, but the most densely populated. It is part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq, and became a British colony in the 1700s and was federated into Canada as a province in 1873. Its capital is Charlottetown. According to the 2016 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 142,907 residents.

The Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Prince Edward Island, Charles Douglass Smith. Angus McAulay was elected speaker.

Charles Douglass Smith was a British army officer and colonial administrator.

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.

Members

The members of the Prince Edward Island Legislature after the general election of 1818 were:

RidingName
Prince County Alexander Campbell
David Murray
Charles Binns
William McNeill
Queens County Angus McAulay
William Hyde
Ewan Cameron
Lemuel Cambridge
Kings County Benjamin Coffin
James McLaren
Charles Worrell
Charles Kelly
Charlottetown Samuel Nelson
Paul Mabey
Georgetown Thomas Alley
Theophilus Chappell
Princetown James Townsend
Dugald Stewart
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