8th Parliament of Lower Canada

The 8th Parliament of Lower Canada was in session from January 21, 1815, to February 29, 1816. Elections to the Legislative Assembly in Lower Canada had been held in March 1814. Colonial administrator Gordon Drummond dissolved the assembly in 1816 after it attempted to reintroduce charges against judges Jonathan Sewell and James Monk who had already been cleared of the same charges by the British Privy Council. All sessions were held at Quebec City.

Riding	Member	First elected / previously elected
Bedford	Henry Georgen	1814
Buckinghamshire	François Bellet	1810
Buckinghamshire	James Stuart [a]	1809, 1814
	Louis Bourdages (1815)	1804, [b] 1815
Cornwallis	Joseph Le Vasseur Borgia	1808
Cornwallis	Joseph Robitaille	1808
Devon	Joseph-François Couillard-Després	1814
Devon	François Fournier	1814
Dorchester	John Davidson	1814
Dorchester	Jean-Thomas Taschereau	1812
Effingham	Joseph Malboeuf, dit Beausoleil	1810
Effingham	Samuel Sherwood	1814
Gaspé	George Browne	1814
Hampshire	George Waters Allsopp	1814
Hampshire	François Huot	1796, 1808
Hertford	François Blanchet	1809
Hertford	Étienne-Ferréol Roy	1804
Huntingdon	Michael O'Sullivan	1814
Huntingdon	Austin Cuvillier	1814
Kent	Noël Breux	1814
Kent	Joseph Bresse	1814
Leinster	Jacques Trullier, dit Lacombe [c]	1814
	Michel Prévost (1815)	1815
Leinster	Denis-Benjamin Viger	1808
Montreal County	James Stuart	1808, [d] 1811
Montreal County	Augustin Richer	1814
Montreal East	Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu	1814
Montreal East	George Platt	1814
Montreal West	Louis-Joseph Papineau	1808
Montreal West	James Fraser	1814
Northumberland	Étienne-Claude Lagueux	1814
Northumberland	Thomas Lee	1809
Orléans	Charles Blouin	1810
Quebec County	Louis Gauvreau	1810
Quebec County	Pierre Brehaut	1814
Quebec (Lower Town)	Pierre Bruneau	1810
Quebec (Lower Town)	Andrew Stuart	1814
Quebec (Upper Town)	Claude Dénéchau	1808
Quebec (Upper Town)	Jean-Antoine Panet [e]	1792, [f] 1808
	George Vanfelson (1815)	1815
Richelieu	Séraphin Cherrier (1815) [g]	1815
Richelieu	François-Xavier Malhiot (1815) [g]	1815
Saint-Maurice	Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal	1814
Saint-Maurice	Étienne Le Blanc	1814
Surrey	Pierre Amiot	1813
Surrey	Étienne Duchesnois	1814
Trois-Rivières	Charles Richard Ogden	1814
Trois-Rivières	Amable Berthelot	1814
Warwick	Jacques Deligny	1814
Warwick	Ross Cuthbert	1800, 1812
William-Henry	Robert Jones	1814
York	Nicolas-Eustache Lambert Dumont	1814
York	William Forbes [h]	1814
	Jean-Baptiste Ferré (1815)	1815

Notes

1. was elected in both Montreal County and Buckinghamshire; he chose to sit in the former and Louis Bourdages was elected in the latter in a by-election held in March 1815.
2. Richelieu
3. election was declared invalid; Michel Prévost was elected in a by-election held in June 1815.
4. Montreal East
5. named to the Legislative Council in January 1815; George Vanfelson was elected in a by-election held in February 1815.
6. Quebec (Upper Town)
7. the 1814 election was declared invalid; a by-election was held in March 1815
8. died in November 1814; Jean-Baptiste Ferré was elected in a by-election held in March 1815.

External links

• Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)
• Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada ... Quebec: John Neilson. 1815.