11th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island

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The 11th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented Prince Edward Island between July 25, 1820, and 1825.

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 convened the pleasure of the Governor of Prince Edward Island, Charles Douglass Smith. The speaker was Angus McAulay.

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 following were members of this Assembly.

RidingName
Prince County David Murray
Alexander Campbell
Donald Montgomery
Queens County Angus McAulay
William Hyde
Lemuel Cambridge
Ewan Cameron
Kings County Charles Worrell
Benjamin Coffin
David McEwan
Charlottetown Samuel Nelson
Paul Mabey
Georgetown Theophilus Chappell
Samuel Bagnall
Princetown Dugald Stewart

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