17th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island

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The 17th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between January 26, 1847, and 1850.

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, Henry Vere Huntley. Joseph Pope was elected speaker.

Henry Vere Huntley naval officer and colonial administrator

Sir Henry Vere Huntley was an English naval officer and colonial administrator. He was the eleventh Governor of Prince Edward Island.

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 1847 were:

RidingName
1st Prince Nicholas Conroy
James Warburton
2nd Prince Alexander Rae
Allan Fraser
3rd Prince Joseph Pope
James Herron Conroy
1st Queens Duncan Maclean
George Coles
2nd Queens John Longworth
Robert Mooney
3rd Queens John Little
John Macdougall
1st Kings John Macintosh
Donald McDonald
2nd Kings John Jardine
Edward Whelan
3rd Kings Edward Thornton
John W. LeLacheur
Charlottetown Edward Palmer
Francis Longworth
Georgetown Thomas Heath Haviland
Hugh Macdonald
Princetown Donald Montgomery
William Clark
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