26th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island

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The 26th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island was in session from March 4, 1874, to July 1, 1876. It was elected in the 1873 general election, which had been held when PEI was still a colony.

It was the first assembly after Prince Edward Island became a Canadian province.

The majority party was the Conservative Party led by Premier James Colledge Pope. After Pope resigned to run for a federal seat, Lemuel Owen became party leader and premier.

There were three sessions of the 26th General Assembly:

SessionStartEnd
1stMarch 4, 1874April 28, 1874
2ndMarch 18, 1875April 27, 1875
3rdMarch 16, 1876April 29, 1876

Cornelius Howatt was elected speaker.

Members

Electoral districtMemberPartyFirst elected
  1st Kings Emmanuel McEachern [1] Conservative 1873
  Lauchlin MacDonald (1875) Liberal 1875
 1st Kings J.R. McLean Liberal 1873
  2nd Kings William W. Sullivan Conservative 1873
 2nd Kings Hilary McIsaac Conservative 1873
  3rd Kings L.C. Owen Conservative 1873
 3rd Kings A.C. MacDonald [2] Independent1873
  J.E. MacDonald (1873) Conservative 1873
  4th Kings L.H. Davies Liberal 1873
 4th Kings Manoah Rowe Liberal 1873
  5th Kings T.H. Haviland Independent1873
 5th Kings A.J. MacDonald Conservative 1873
  1st Prince G.W. Howlan [3] Independent1873
  N. Conroy (1873) Liberal 1873
 1st Prince S.F. Perry [2] Liberal 1873
  Francis Gallant (1875) Conservative 1873
  2nd Prince John Yeo Conservative 1873
 2nd Prince James Yeo [2] Independent1873
  James W. Richards (1873) Conservative 1873
  3rd Prince John A. MacDonald Conservative 1873
 3rd Prince J.O. Arsenault Conservative 1873
  4th Prince A.E.C. Holland Conservative 1873
 4th Prince C. Howatt Conservative 1873
  5th Prince John Lefurgey Conservative 1873
 5th Prince Thomas Kelly [4] Conservative 1873
  James Colledge Pope (1875) Conservative 1875
  1st Queens P. Sinclair [2] Liberal 1873
  William Campbell (1873)Independent1873
 1st Queens W.D. Stewart Liberal 1873
  2nd Queens H. Callbeck Liberal 1873
 2nd Queens W.S. McNeill Liberal 1873
  3rd Queens H. Beer Liberal 1873
 3rd Queens F. Kelly Conservative 1873
  4th Queens David Laird [2] Independent1873
  William Welsh (1873) Liberal 1873
 4th Queens Benjamin Davies Liberal 1873
  5th Queens James Colledge Pope [2] Conservative 1873
  Frederick Brecken (1873) Conservative 1873
 5th Queens Frederick Brecken [5] Conservative 1873
  John Theophilus Jenkins (1873) Conservative 1873

Notes:

  1. ↑ died
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 elected to federal seat
  3. ↑ appointed to Canadian Senate
  4. ↑ resigned seat
  5. ↑ ran unsuccessfully for federal seat
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