15th Parliament of Lower Canada

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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.

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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.

RidingMemberFirst elected / previously elected
Beauce Antoine-Charles Taschereau 1830
Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau [a] 1830
Joseph-André Taschereau (1835)1835
Beauharnois Charles Archambault 1830
Jacob De Witt 1830
Bellechasse Augustin-Norbert Morin 1830
Nicolas Boissonnault 1830
Berthier Alexis Mousseau 1820, 1827
Jacques Deligny [b] 1820
Norbert Éno (1837)1837
Bonaventure Édouard Thibaudeau [c] 1830
James McCracken (1836)1836
Joseph-François Deblois 1834
Chambly Louis Lacoste 1834
Louis-Michel Viger 1830
Champlain Olivier Trudel 1830
Pierre-Antoine Dorion 1830
Deux-Montagnes William Henry Scott 1829
Jean-Joseph Girouard 1831
Dorchester Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin 1834
Jean Bouffard 1832
Drummond [d] Edward Toomy 1833
Henry Menut (1836)1836
Gaspé John Le Boutillier 1833
William Power 1832
Kamouraska Amable Dionne [e] 1830
Alexandre Fraser (1835)1835
Pierre Canac, dit Marquis 1834
L'Acadie Merritt Hotchkiss 1834
Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté 1834
Lachenaie Charles Courteau 1824, 1830
Jean-Marie Rochon [f] 1830
Ludger Duvernay (1837)1837
Laprairie Jean-Moïse Raymond 1824
Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal 1834
L'Assomption Édouard-Étienne Rodier 1832
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur 1834
L'Islet Jean-Baptiste Fortin 1820
Jean-Charles Létourneau 1827
Lotbinière Louis Méthot 1830
Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël 1830
Mégantic John Greaves Clapham 1834
Missisquoi Ephraim Knight 1834
William Baker 1834
Montmorency [d] Elzéar Bédard [g] 1832
Nicolas Lefrançois (1836)1836
Vital Têtu (1836)1836
Montreal County Côme-Séraphin Cherrier 1834
Louis-Joseph Papineau [h] 1808
André Jobin (1835) [h] 1835
Montreal East Joseph Roy 1834
James Leslie 1824
Montreal West Louis-Joseph Papineau 1808
Robert Nelson 1834
Nicolet Jean-Baptiste Proulx 1820
Louis Bourdages [i] 1804, [j] 1815
Jean-Baptiste Hébert (1835)1835
Orléans Alexis Godbout 1834
Jean-Baptiste Cazeau 1830
Ottawa Baxter Bowman 1834
James Blackburn 1834
Portneuf Hector-Simon Huot 1830
François-Xavier Larue 1826
Quebec County Louis-Théodore Besserer 1833
Jean Blanchet 1834
Quebec (Lower Town) George Vanfelson [k] 1832
John Munn (1837)1837
Hippolyte Dubord 1834
Quebec (Upper Town) René-Édouard Caron [l] 1834
Andrew Stuart (1836)1814, 1820, 1824, 1836
Amable Berthelot 1834
Richelieu Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury [m] 1832
Jacques Dorion 1830
Rimouski Jean-Baptiste Taché 1820, 1834
Louis Bertrand 1832
Rouville Pierre-Martial Bardy 1834
Pierre Careau 1833
Saguenay François-Xavier Tessier [n] 1833
Charles Drolet (1836)1836
André Cimon 1832
Saint-Hyacinthe Thomas Boutillier 1834
Louis Raynaud, dit Blanchard 1834
Saint-Maurice Valère Guillet [o] 1830
François Lesieur Desaulniers (1836)1836
Pierre Bureau (1836) [p] 1819
Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie (1836)1836
Shefford Alphonso Wells 1834
Samuel Wood 1832
Sherbrooke John Moore 1834
Bartholomew Gugy 1834
Stanstead John Grannis [q] 1834
Moses French Colby (1837)1837
Marcus Child 1834
Terrebonne Séraphin Bouc [r] 1834
André-Benjamin Papineau (1837)1837
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine 1830
Trois-Rivières Edward Barnard 1834
René-Joseph Kimber 1834
Vaudreuil Charles-Ovide Perrault 1834
Charles Rocbrune, dit Larocque 1833
Verchères Pierre Amiot 1813
Joseph-Toussaint Drolet 1832
William-Henry John Pickel 1834
Yamaska Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan 1834
Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour 1832

Notes

  1. ↑ resigned in November 1835; Joseph-André Taschereau was elected in a by-election held in December 1835.
  2. ↑ died in January 1837; Norbert Éno was elected in a by-election held in March 1837.
  3. ↑ died in August 1836; James McCracken was elected in a by-election held in December 1836.
  4. 1 2 second seat added in 1836
  5. ↑ resigned in May 1835; Alexandre Fraser was elected in a by-election held in June 1835.
  6. ↑ Died in February 1837; Ludger Duvernay was elected in a by-election held in May 1837.
  7. ↑ resigned to accept a position as judge in February 1836; Nicolas Lefrançois was elected in a by-election held in March 1836.
  8. 1 2 Resigned immediately. 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.
  9. ↑ died in January 1835; Jean-Baptiste Hébert was elected in a by-election held in April 1835.
  10. ↑ Richelieu
  11. ↑ resigned his seat in June 1837; John Munn was elected in a by-election held in July 1837.
  12. ↑ resigned in March 1836; Andrew Stuart was elected in a by-election held in March 1836.
  13. ↑ resigned his seat in August 1837 after being appointed to Legislative Council
  14. ↑ died in December 1835; Charles Drolet was elected in a by-election held in February 1836.
  15. ↑ resigned in June 1836; François Lesieur Desaulniers was elected in a by-election held in August 1836.
  16. ↑ died in June 1836; Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie was elected in a by-election held in August 1836.
  17. ↑ resigned in October 1836; Moses French Colby was elected in a by-election held in January 1837.
  18. ↑ died in July 1837; André-Benjamin Papineau was elected in a by-election held in September 1837.

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