4th Parliament of the Province of Canada

The 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in December 1851, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in October 1851. Sessions were held in Quebec City. The Parliament was dissolved in June 1854.

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was John Sandfield Macdonald.

Members

Canada East – 42 seats

Riding	Member	Party	First elected/previously elected
Beauharnois	Ovide Le Blanc	Reformer	1851
Bellechasse	Jean Chabot	Reformer	1843
Berthier	Joseph-Hilarion Jobin	Patriote	1851
Bonaventure	David Le Boutillier	Reformer	1851
Chambly	Louis Lacoste	Reformer	1843, [a] 1849
Champlain	Thomas Marchildon	Liberal	1851
Deux-Montagnes	William Henry Scott [b]	Reformer	1844
	Louis-Joseph Papineau (1852)	Rouge	1848, [c] 1852
Dorchester	François-Xavier Lemieux	Reformer	1847
Drummond	John McDougall	Conservative	1851
Gaspé	Robert Christie	Independent	1841
Huntingdon	Jean-Baptiste Varin	Reformer	1851
Kamouraska	Jean-Charles Chapais	Reformer	1851
Leinster	Louis-Michel Viger	Reformer	1842, [d] 1848
L'Islet	Charles-François Fournier	Reformer	1848
Lotbinière	Joseph Laurin	Reformer	1844
Mégantic	John Greaves Clapham	Tory	1851
Missisquoi	Seneca Paige	Moderate	1851
Montmorency	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Reformer	1844
Montreal	John Young	Rouge	1851
	William Badgley	Tory	1847
Montreal County	Michel-François Valois	Rouge	1851
Nicolet	Thomas Fortier	Reformer	1848
Ottawa	John Egan	Reformer	1848
Portneuf	Ulric-Joseph Tessier	Reformer	1851
Quebec County	Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau	Reformer	1844
Quebec City	Hippolyte Dubord	Independent	1851
	George Okill Stuart	Conservative	1851
Richelieu	Antoine-Némèse Gouin	Reformer	1851
Rimouski	Joseph-Charles Taché	Reformer	1848
Rouville	Joseph-Napoléon Poulin	Reformer	1851
Saguenay	Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière	Reformer	1845
St. Hyacinthe	Louis-Victor Sicotte	Liberal	1851
Saint-Maurice	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	Reformer	1841, 1851
Shefford	Lewis Thomas Drummond	Liberal	1844
Sherbrooke	Edward Short [e]	Moderate	1851
	Alexander Tilloch Galt (1853)	Independent	1849, 1853
Sherbrooke (county)	John Sewell Sanborn	Liberal	1850
Stanstead	Hazard Bailey Terrill [f]	Moderate	1851
	Timothy Lee Terrill (1852)	Moderate	1852
Terrebonne	Augustin-Norbert Morin	Reformer	1841 [g] 1851
Trois-Rivières	Antoine Polette	Reformer	1848
Vaudreuil	Jean-Baptiste Mongenais	Reformer	1848
Verchères	George-Étienne Cartier	Reformer	1848
Yamaska	Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin	Reformer	1851

Canada West – 42 seats

Riding	Member	Party	First elected/previously elected
Brockville	George Crawford	Conservative	1841
Bytown	Daniel McLachlin	Reformer	1851
Carleton	Edward Malloch		1848
Cornwall	Roderick McDonald		1851
Dundas	Jesse W. Rose		1851
Durham	James Smith		1848
Essex	John Prince		1841
Frontenac	Henry Smith, Jr	Conservative	1841
Glengarry	John Sandfield Macdonald	Reformer	1841
Grenville	William Patrick	Reformer	1851
Haldimand	William Lyon Mackenzie	Reformer	1851
Halton	John White		1851
Hamilton	Allan Napier MacNab	Conservative	1841
Hastings	Edmund Murney		1851
Huron	Malcolm Cameron	Reformer	1841
Kent	George Brown	Reformer	1851
Kingston	John A. Macdonald	Conservative	1844
Lanark	James Shaw	Conservative	1851
Leeds	William Buell Richards [h]	Reformer	1848
	Jesse Delong (1853)	Reformer	1853
Lennox and Addington	Benjamin Seymour	Conservative	1844
Lincoln	William Hamilton Merritt	Reformer	1844
London	Thomas C. Dixon	Conservative	1851
Middlesex	Crowell Willson		1851
Niagara (town)	Francis Hincks [i]	Reformer	1851
	Joseph Curran Morrison (1852)	Reformer	1852
Norfolk	John Rolph	Clear Grit	1851
Northumberland	Asa A Burnham		1851
Oxford	Francis Hincks	Reformer	1841, 1848
Peterborough	John Langton	Conservative	1851
Prescott	Thomas Hall Johnston		1848
Prince Edward	David Barker Stevenson	Conservative	1848
Russell	George Byron Lyon-Fellowes		1848
Simcoe	William Benjamin Robinson	Conservative	1844
Stormont	William Mattice		1851
Toronto	George Percival Ridout	Independent Conservative	1851
	William Henry Boulton [j]	Conservative	1844, 1853
	Henry Sherwood (1853)	Conservative	1843, 1853
Waterloo	Adam Johnston Fergusson	Reform	1849
Welland	Thomas Clark Street	Conservative	1851
Wentworth	David Christie	Reformer	1851
East York	Amos Wright	Reformer	1851
North York	Joseph Hartman	Reformer	1851
South York	John William Gamble	Tory	1851
West York	George Wright	Reformer	1851

Notes

1. Montreal
2. died in 1851; Louis-Joseph Papineau was elected in a by-election held in July 1852.
3. Saint-Maurice
4. Nicolet
5. resigned to accept an appointment in November 1852; Alexander Tilloch Galt was elected in a by-election held in March 1853.
6. died in 1852; his brother, Timothy Lee Terrill, was elected to his seat in a by-election held in November 1852.
7. Nicolet/Saguenay
8. named judge in June 1853; Jesse Delong elected in a July 1853 by-election.
9. Francis Hincks was elected in both Niagara and Oxford, choosing to sit for Oxford; Joseph Curran Morrison was elected in an 1852 by-election for Niagara.
10. election declared void in March 1853; Henry Sherwood elected in an April 1853 by-election

References

Bibliography

• Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)
• Côté, George Oliver (1860). Political appointments and elections in the province of Canada. 1841 to 1860. St. Michael & Darveau.

External links

• Ontario's parliament buildings ; or, A century of legislation, 1792–1892 : a historical sketch
• Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)