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- ↑ Journals of the Legislative Assembly 1863 https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00952_22/5
- ↑ Journals of the Legislative Assembly 1865 https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00952_25/5
- ↑ Journals of the Legislative Assembly 1866 https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00952_26/5
- ↑ resigned his seat in 1864 to run for a position in the Legislative Council; Pierre-Alexis Tremblay was elected in a by-election in January 1865.
- ↑ resigned his seat to accept the post of inspector of prisons; Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher was elected in a by-election in August 1864.
- ↑ accepted an appointment as a judge in 1863; Rémi Raymond was elected in a by-election in October 1863.
- ↑ died in December 1864; Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville was elected in a by-election in January 1865.
- ↑ resigned in 1865; Charles Magill was elected in a by-election in 1866.
- ↑ resigned his seat to allow William McDougall to be elected in November 1864.
- ↑ appointed Solicitor-General for Canada West; David Ford Jones was elected in a by-election in January 1864.
- ↑ resigned in 1864; Angus Morrison was elected in a by-election in September 1864.
- ↑ accepted an appointment to cabinet and was defeated by Matthew Crooks Cameron in a by-election in July 1864.
- ↑ received an appointment; Thomas Nicholson Gibbs was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1864.
- ↑ died in 1866; Thomas Oliver was elected in a by-election in the same year.
- ↑ died in 1864; Frederick W. Haultain was elected to the seat in a by-election in the same year.
- ↑ was forced to seek reelection due to an appointment; Isaac Erb Bowman was elected in a by-election in April 1864.
- Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)