The 18th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between March 5, 1850, and 1854.
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, Donald Campbell. Alexander Rae was elected speaker.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.
Responsible government was granted to the island in 1851 and George Coles became the first Premier.
The members of the Prince Edward Island Legislature after the general election of 1850 were:
Riding | Name |
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1st Prince | James Warburton |
James Yeo | |
2nd Prince | Alexander Rae |
Allan Fraser | |
3rd Prince | William Lord |
Joseph Pope | |
1st Queens | George Coles |
Alexander Laird | |
2nd Queens | Robert Mooney |
Neil McNeill | |
3rd Queens | Benjamin Davies |
William Douse | |
1st Kings | Daniel Flynn |
Donald Beaton | |
2nd Kings | John Jardine |
Edward Whelan | |
3rd Kings | Edward Thornton |
John LaLacheur | |
Charlottetown | Edward Palmer |
Francis Longworth | |
Georgetown | Thomas Heath Haviland |
James Macdonald | |
Princetown | William E. Clark |
Donald Montgomery |
Joseph Hensley was a Prince Edward Island politician. His father, Charles Hensley, had been a member of the legislative council and colonial treasurer. Hensley served briefly as Premier of Prince Edward Island in 1869 and then as an Associate Justice of the province's Supreme Court for a quarter of a century.
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Sir Robert Hodgson was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
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