22nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia

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The 22nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1859 and 1863.

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The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, George Augustus Constantine Phipps.

Stewart Campbell was chosen as speaker for the house.

The 22nd General Assembly was actually the 21st assembly of the province, and earned its name due to an error. According to the 1983 revised edition of The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758 -1983 : a biographical directory:

It should be pointed out, however, that an error in numbering the Journals [of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly] occurred in 1860, when the 21st Assembly was mistakenly referred to as the 22nd Assembly. Although the error was corrected in 1864, it reappeared the following year and has since been perpetuated. Consequently, to be strictly accurate, the present Assembly [convened in 1982] should be regarded as the 52nd, rather than the 53rd Assembly of the Province.

List of Members

Electoral DistrictNameFirst elected / previously elected
Annapolis County J.W. Johnston 1843
Moses Shaw 1858
Avard Longley 1859
Cape Breton County Thomas Caldwell1856
John George Bourinot 1859
Colchester North Division A.W. McLellan 1858
Thomas F. Morrison 1859
South Division Adams G. Archibald 1851
Alexander Campbell1859
Cumberland County William Young [a] 1840
Robert Donkin (1861)1861
Charles Tupper 1855
Alexander McFarlane 1855
Digby County John C. Wade 1851
Mathurin Robicheau 1855
Colin Campbell 1859
Guysborough County Stewart Campbell 1851
William O. Heffernan 1859
Halifax County Western Division John Tobin 1855
Henry Pryor 1859
Samuel Leonard Shannon 1859
Eastern Division John Esson 1851
William Annand 1836, 1851
Hants County North Division Ezra Churchill 1855
Arthur McNutt Cochran 1859
South Division Joseph Howe 1836 [b] 1856
William Chambers 1855
Inverness County Peter Smyth 1847
Hugh McDonald 1859
Hiram Blanchard 1859
Kings County North DivisionWilliam Burgess1859
Samuel Chipman 1830, [c] 1851
South Division John L. Brown 1859
William B. Webster [d] 1855
Daniel Moore (1861)1861
Lunenburg County Henry Bailey 1859
Benjamin Wier 1851
Henry Moseley 1859
Pictou County Western Division Alexander C. McDonald 1855
Robert P. Grant 1859
Eastern DivisionGeorge McKenzie1859
James McDonald 1859
Queens County John Campbell 1845
South DistrictLewis Smith1859
North District Andrew Cowie 1851, 1859
Richmond County Charles F. Harrington 1847, 1859
Henry Martell 1840
Shelburne County Thomas Coffin 1851, 1859
Township of Barrington Robert Robertson 1855
Township of Shelburne John Locke 1851
Sydney County W. A. Henry 1847
John McKinnon 1851
Victoria County Hugh Munro [e] 1851
Charles J. Campbell (1860)1855, 1860
William Ross 1859
William Gammell (1861)1861
Yarmouth County Thomas Killam 1847
Township of Argyle John V.N. Hatfield1859
Township of Yarmouth William H. Townsend 1859

Notes

  1. named judge
  2. Halifax County/Cumberland County
  3. King's County
  4. died in 1861
  5. appointed chairman of the Board of Works

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