The 13th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between February 3, 1831, and 1835.
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, John Ready. Ewan Cameron was elected speaker. Ready was replaced by Murray Maxwell as Governor later in 1831.
John Ready was a British army officer, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1824 to 1831 and also as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1832 to 1845.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.
Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, CB, FRS was a British Royal Navy officer who served with distinction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Maxwell first gained recognition as one of the British captains involved in the successful Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814, during which he was responsible for the destruction of a French armaments convoy at the Action of 29 November 1811. As a result of further success in the Mediterranean, Maxwell was given increasingly important commissions and, despite the loss of his ship HMS Daedalus off Ceylon in 1813, was appointed to escort the British Ambassador to China in 1816.
As of 1830, Roman Catholics were allowed to vote and hold office in the colony.[ permanent dead link ]
The members of the Prince Edward Island Legislature after the general election of 1831 were:
Riding | Name |
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Prince County | Samuel Green |
Thomas C. Compton | |
Joseph Pope | |
Patrick Cody | |
Queens County | Ewan Cameron |
Samuel Nelson | |
John Small MacDonald | |
Donald Macdonald | |
Kings County | Thomas Owen |
Daniel Brenan | |
Charlottetown | Charles Binns |
John Brecken | |
Georgetown | Hugh Macdonald |
Roderick McNeill | |
Princetown | William McNeill |
The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, along with the Queen of Canada in Right of Prince Edward Island, represented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island, forms the parliament of the province. The General Assembly meets at Province House, which is located at the intersection of Richmond and Great George Streets in Charlottetown.
The 22nd General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between March 3, 1863, and 1867.
The 21st General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between April 12, 1859, and 1863. An elected assembly had been dissolved by the governor earlier in 1859 because it could not choose a speaker.
The 20th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between September 26, 1854, and 1859.
The 19th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between February 9, 1854, and May 10, 1854.
The 18th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between March 5, 1850, and 1854.
The 17th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between January 26, 1847, and 1850.
The 16th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between January 23, 1843, and 1847.
The 15th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between January 22, 1839, and 1843.
The 14th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between January 26, 1835, and 1839.
The 12th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between January 14, 1825, and 1831.
The 10th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between November 3, 1818, and 1820.
The 9th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between August 10, 1812, and 1818.
The 8th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between 10 August 1806 and 1812.
The 3rd General Assembly of the Island of St. John represented the colony of Prince Edward Island, then known as St. John's Island, between 1779 and January 1784.
The 1st General Assembly of the Island of St. John represented the colony of Prince Edward Island, then known as St. John's Island, between July 7, 1773, and 1774.
The 2nd General Assembly of the Island of St. John represented the colony of Prince Edward Island, then known as St. John's Island, between October 4, 1774, and 1779.
The 4th General Assembly of the Island of St. John represented the colony of Prince Edward Island, then known as St. John's Island, between 1785 and 1787.