Saguenay (Province of Canada electoral district)

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Saguenay
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Province of Canada electoral district
Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
District created1841
District abolished1854
First contested1841
Last contested1854

Saguenay was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East (now Quebec). It was to the north-east of Quebec City. Saguenay was created in 1841 and was based on the previous electoral district of the same name for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. It was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.

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In 1853, the provincial Parliament redrew the electoral map. As part of the redistribution, the 1841 district of Saguenay was divided into three new districts, initially called Saguenay, Chicoutimi, and Tadousac electoral districts. Those districts were used in the general elections of 1854.

In 1855, the provincial Parliament passed further amendments to the electoral map, and re-named the new Saguenay electoral district to be the Charlevoix electoral district. There was no change to the boundaries, only to the name. At the same time, the name of the Tadousac electoral district was changed to the Saguenay electoral district, again with no change to the boundaries.

Boundaries

The 1841 electoral district of Saguenay was located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, north-east of Quebec City (now in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region). It extended north and east to the provincial boundary .

The Union Act, 1840 , passed by the British Parliament, merged the two provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished. [1] The Union Act provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Lower Canada and Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new Parliament, unless altered by the Union Act itself. [2]

The Saguenay electoral district of Lower Canada was not altered by the Act, and therefore initially continued with the same boundaries which had been set by a statute of Lower Canada in 1829:

The County of Saguenay shall be bounded on the south west by the said County of Montmorency, on the north east by the north easterly boundary of the Province, on the south east by the River Saint Lawrence, including all of the Islands in the River Saint Lawrence nearest to the said County and in whole or in part fronting the same, and on the north west by the northern boundary of the Province; which County so bounded comprises part of the seigniory of Beaupré, the seigniories of Gouffre, Eboulemens, Murray Bay and Mount Murray and the Township of Settrington. [3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly (1841–1854)

Saguenay was a single-member constituency, represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly. [2]

The following were the members of the Legislative Assembly for Saguenay. The party affiliations are based on the biographies of individual members given by the National Assembly of Quebec, as well as votes in the Legislative Assembly. "Party" was a fluid concept, especially during the early years of the Province of Canada. [4] [5] [6]

ParliamentMembersYears in OfficeParty
1st Parliament
1841–1844
Étienne Parent [lower-alpha 1] Etienne Parent 02.jpg 1841–1842Anti-unionist; French-Canadian Group
Augustin-Norbert Morin [lower-alpha 2] ANMorin.jpg 1842–1844
(by-election)
French-Canadian Group
2nd Parliament
1844–1847
Augustin-Norbert Morin [lower-alpha 3] ANMorin.jpg Declined seatFrench-Canadian Group
Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière [lower-alpha 4] Marc Pascal de Sales Laterriere.png 1845–1847
(by-election)
French-Canadian Group
3rd Parliament
1848–1851
Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière [lower-alpha 5] Marc Pascal de Sales Laterriere.png 1848French-Canadian Group
1848–1851
(by-election)
4th Parliament
1851–1854
Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière Marc Pascal de Sales Laterriere.png 1851–1854French-Canadian Group

Notes

  1. Resigned on October 14, 1842, on appointment as Clerk of the Executive Council: Côté, Appointments and Elections, p. 59, note (43).
  2. Elected in by-election, November 28, 1842: Côté, [Côté, Appointments and Elections], p. 59, note (44).
  3. Morin stood for election in both Saguenay and Bellechasse, as was permitted under the election law at that time. He was elected in both seats and chose to sit in the Bellechasse seat, declining the Saguenay seat, December 13, 1844: Côté, Political Appointments and Elections, p. 60, note (80).
  4. Elected in by-election, January 14, 1845: Côté, Political Appointments and Elections, p. 60, note (81).
  5. Reguired to resign seat on being appointed Deputy Adjutant General of Militia, an office of profit under the Crown, June 5, 1848; re-elected in by-election, September 5, 1848: Côté, Political Appointments and Elections, p. 61, note (115).

Abolition

The district was abolished in 1854, when the 1853 redistribution statute came into effect. The 1841 Saguenay electoral district was split into three new electoral districts: Charlevoix, Chicoutimi, and the new Saguenay electoral district.

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References

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Statutes of Lower Canada, 13th Provincial Parliament, 2nd Session (1829), c. 74