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The 22nd General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between March 3, 1863, and 1867.
The Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Prince Edward Island, George Dundas. Thomas Heath Haviland was elected speaker.
John Hamilton Gray was Premier.
The members of the Prince Edward Island Legislature after the general election of 1863 were:
| Riding | Name |
|---|---|
| 1st Prince | Nicholas Conroy |
| George W. Howlan | |
| 2nd Prince | John Yeo |
| David Ramsay | |
| 3rd Prince | James Warburton |
| George Sinclair | |
| 4th Prince | James C. Pope |
| Cornelius Howatt | |
| 5th Prince | Colin McLennan |
| James Muirhead | |
| 1st Queens | Donald Montgomery |
| William Haslam | |
| 2nd Queens | John Longworth |
| Alexander Laird | |
| 3rd Queens | George Coles |
| Francis Kelly | |
| 4th Queens | John H. Gray |
| William H. Pope | |
| 1st Kings | Joseph Hensley |
| Donald Beaton | |
| 2nd Kings | Edward Whelan |
| John Sutherland | |
| 3rd Kings | Edward Thornton |
| Ronald Walker | |
| 4th Kings | David Kaye |
| James Duncan | |
| Charlottetown and Royalty | Daniel Davies |
| Frederick de St. Croix Brecken | |
| Georgetown and Royalty | Thomas Heath Haviland |
| Roderick McAulay |
Events from the year 1863 in Canada.
John Hamilton Gray was Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1863 – 1865 and one of the Fathers of Confederation.
Andrew Archibald Macdonald, served as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1 August 1884 to 2 September 1889, and was one of the fathers of Canadian Confederation.
Edward Palmer was a Canadian politician born at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and resided in Prince Edward Island until his death. He is considered one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation, despite his opposition to Confederation, as he was a delegate to both the Charlottetown and Québec Conferences.
Thomas Heath Haviland was a Canadian lawyer, politician and father of Canadian Confederation. He was born in, and died in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada on 18 October 1873, and represented Prince Edward Island as a Conservative until his resignation in July 1879.
The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island together with the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island form the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The Legislative Assembly meets at Province House, which is located at the intersection of Richmond and Great George Streets in Charlottetown. Bills passed by the Assembly are given royal assent by the King of Canada in Right of Prince Edward Island, represented by the lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island.
This is a list of the legislative assemblies of Canada's provinces and territories. Each province's legislative assembly, along with the province's lieutenant governor, form the province's legislature. Historically, several provinces had bicameral legislatures, but they all eventually dissolved their upper house or merged it with their lower house, so that all provincial legislatures are now unicameral.
John Yeo was a Canadian farmer, ship builder and parliamentarian.
The politics of Prince Edward Island are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces. The capital of the province of Prince Edward Island is Charlottetown, where the lieutenant governor and the premier reside, and where the provincial legislature and cabinet are located.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.
Donald Alexander MacKinnon was a Canadian teacher, lawyer, politician, author, and the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1904 to 1910.
The General Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the unicameral legislature of the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada, consisting of the King of Canada in Right of Prince Edward Island, represented by the lieutenant governor and the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The legislature was first established in 1773.
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.
Frederick de St. Croix Brecken was a lawyer and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented Charlottetown in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1873 to 1876 and Queen's County in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1882 and from 1883 to 1884 as a Conservative member.
Daniel Gordon was a businessman, ship owner and politician in Prince Edward Island. He represented 2nd Kings from 1866 to 1873 and 5th Kings from 1876 to 1904 in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island as a Conservative member
William Campbell was a farmer and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented 1st Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1873 to 1886 and from 1898 to 1900 and 4th Prince from 1896 to 1897 as a Conservative member.
John Alexander Dewar was a farmer and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He represented 3rd Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1912 to 1917 as a Conservative. Following several votes against his party in the 38th General Assembly, Dewar lost the Conservative nomination in his district. He ran and won re-election as an Independent the 1919 election, but was unable to win in 1923.
The Cascumpeque Light is a deactivated lighthouse on the western north coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The station was established in 1856 and the lighthouse itself was built in 1899.
From 19 November 1862, a plebiscite in Greece was held in support of adopting Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, later Duke of Edinburgh, as king. The results were announced in February 1863. Of the 240,000 votes reported, over 95% were in favour of the appointment. The previous king, Otto, who had been deposed in a popular revolt, received one vote. There were six votes for a Greek candidate and 93 for a Republic.
The 66th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the 66th sitting of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island and the 40th since confederation in 1873. The membership of the assembly was determined by the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election, where the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island led by Dennis King won a plurality of seats. With a victory in a November 2020 by-election, King's PCs became a majority government.