The 16th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between January 23, 1843, and 1847.
Prince Edward Island is a province of Canada consisting of the Atlantic island of the same name along with several much smaller islands nearby. Prince Edward Island is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population, but the most densely populated. It is part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq, and became a British colony in the 1700s and was federated into Canada as a province in 1873. Its capital is Charlottetown. According to the 2016 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 142,907 residents.
The Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Prince Edward Island, Henry Vere Huntley. Joseph Pope was elected speaker.
Sir Henry Vere Huntley was an English naval officer and colonial administrator. He was the eleventh Governor of Prince Edward Island.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.
The members of the Prince Edward Island Legislature after the general election of 1843 were:
Riding | Name |
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1st Prince | James Yeo |
John Cambridge | |
2nd Prince | Alexander Rae |
Allan Fraser | |
3rd Prince | Joseph Pope |
Richard Hudson | |
1st Queens | Duncan Maclean |
George Coles | |
2nd Queens | J.S. Macdonald |
Alexander Macgregor | |
3rd Queens | Alexander Maclean |
William Douse | |
1st Kings | John Macintosh |
Donald McDonald | |
2nd Kings | William Cooper |
William Dingwell | |
3rd Kings | John Dalziel |
Joseph Wightman | |
Charlottetown | Edward Palmer |
Francis Longworth | |
Georgetown | Edward Thornton |
Roderick Macaulay | |
Princetown | Donald Montgomery |
William Beairsto |
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