Parliament of Lower Canada

15th Legislature (1834-1838)

FR EN ES

House of Assembly

MHAs

The Members of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada in the 15th Legislature.

Riding Name Party
Acadie (seat 1) Mr. Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté PAT
Acadie (seat 2) Mr. Merritt Hotchkiss PAT
Assomption (seat 1) Mr. Édouard-Étienne Rodier PAT
Assomption (seat 2) Mr. Jean-Baptiste Meilleur PAT
Beauce (seat 1) Mr. Antoine-Charles Taschereau PAT
Beauce (seat 2) Mr. Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau (until 24-nov-1835) PAT
Mr. Joseph-André Taschereau (since 12-déc-1835) ind.
Beauharnois (seat 1) Mr. Charles Archambault PAT
Beauharnois (seat 2) Mr. Jacob De Witt (Independent MHA in 1837) PAT
ind.
Bellechasse (seat 1) Mr. Augustin-Norbert Morin PAT
Bellechasse (seat 2) Mr. Nicolas Boissonnault PAT
Berthier (seat 1) Mr. Jacques Deligny (until 02-jan-1837) PAT
Mr. Norbert Éno (since 07-mar-1837) PAT
Berthier (seat 2) Mr. Alexis Mousseau PAT
Bonaventure (seat 1) Mr. Joseph-François Deblois PAT
Bonaventure (seat 2) Mr. Édouard Thibaudeau (until 21-aou-1836) PAT
Mr. James McCracken (since 24-déc-1836) BUR
Chambly (seat 1) Mr. Louis Lacoste PAT
Chambly (seat 2) Mr. Louis-Michel Viger PAT
Champlain (seat 1) Mr. Pierre-Antoine Dorion PAT
Champlain (seat 2) Mr. Olivier Trudel PAT
Dorchester (seat 1) Mr. Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin PAT
Dorchester (seat 2) Mr. Jean Bouffard PAT
Drummond (seat 1) Mr. Edward Toomy PAT
Drummond (seat 2) vacant (until 29-nov-1836; seat created after the 1836 census)
Mr. Henry Menut (since 28-oct-1836) BUR
Gaspé (seat 1) Mr. John Le Boutillier BUR
Gaspé (seat 2) Mr. William Power BUR
Ilet (seat 1) Mr. Jean-Baptiste Fortin PAT
Ilet (seat 2) Mr. Jean-Charles Létourneau PAT
Kamouraska (seat 1) Mr. Pierre Canac, dit Marquis (Bureaucrat MHA in 1836) PAT
BUR
Kamouraska (seat 2) Mr. Amable Dionne (until 05-mai-1835) PAT
Mr. Alexandre Fraser ind.
Lac des deux Montagnes (seat 1) Mr. William Henry Scott PAT
Lac des deux Montagnes (seat 2) Mr. Jean-Joseph Girouard PAT
Lachenaie (La Chesnaye) (seat 1) Mr. Charles Courteau PAT
Lachenaie (La Chesnaye) (seat 2) Mr. Jean-Marie Rochon (until 13-fév-1837) PAT
Mr. Ludger Duvernay (since 26-mai-1837) PAT
Laprairie (seat 1) Mr. Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal PAT
Laprairie (seat 2) Mr. Jean-Moïse Raymond PAT
Lotbinière (seat 1) Mr. Louis Méthot PAT
Lotbinière (seat 2) Mr. Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël PAT
Mégantic Mr. John Greaves Clapham BUR
Missiskoui (seat 1) Mr. Ephraim Knight PAT
Missiskoui (seat 2) Mr. William Baker BUR
Montmorency (seat 1) Mr. Elzéar Bédard (until 22-fév-1836) PAT
Mr. Nicolas Lefrançois (since 28-mar-1836) PAT
Montmorency (seat 2) vacant (until 28-oct-1836; seat created after the 1836 census)
Mr. Vital Têtu (since 28-oct-1836) ind.
Montréal, comté de (seat 1) Mr. Louis-Joseph Papineau (chose to sit for Montréal (quartier ouest) on 03-nov-1835) PAT
Mr. André Jobin (since 25-nov-1835) PAT
Montréal, comté de (seat 2) Mr. Côme-Séraphin Cherrier (Montréal) PAT
Montréal (quartier est) (seat 1) Mr. James Leslie PAT
Montréal (quartier est) (seat 2) Mr. Joseph Roy PAT
Montréal (quartier ouest) (seat 1) Mr. Louis-Joseph Papineau PAT
Montréal (quartier ouest) (seat 2) Mr. Robert Nelson PAT
Nicolet (seat 1) Mr. Louis Bourdages (until 20-jan-1835) PAT
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Hébert (since 03-avr-1835) PAT
Nicolet (seat 2) Mr. Jean-Baptiste Proulx PAT
Orléans (seat 1) Mr. Jean-Baptiste Cazeau PAT
Orléans (seat 2) Mr. Alexis Godbout PAT
Outaouaïs (seat 1) Mr. Baxter Bowman BUR
Outaouaïs (seat 2) Mr. James Blackburn BUR
Portneuf (seat 1) Mr. Hector-Simon Huot PAT-M
Portneuf (seat 2) Mr. François-Xavier Larue PAT
Québec, comté de (seat 1) Mr. Louis-Théodore Besserer (Independent MHA in déc-1837) PAT
ind.
Québec, comté de (seat 2) Mr. Jean Blanchet (Québec) PAT
Québec (basse-ville) (seat 1) Mr. George Vanfelson (until 05-jun-1837) PAT-M
Mr. John Munn (since 06-jul-1837) BUR
Québec (basse-ville) (seat 2) Mr. Hippolyte Dubord PAT
Québec (haute-ville) (seat 1) Mr. René-Édouard Caron (Voted with the Bureaucrat Party since 1834; until 07-mar-1836) PAT-M
BUR
Mr. Andrew Stuart (since 26-mar-1836) BUR
Québec (haute-ville) (seat 2) Mr. Amable Berthelot PAT-M
Richelieu (seat 1) Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury (Moderate Patriot MHA during the legislature, then Bureaucrat MHA in 1836; until 22-aou-1837) PAT
PAT-M
BUR
vacant (since 22-aou-1837) vac.
Richelieu (seat 2) Mr. Jacques Dorion PAT
Rimouski (seat 1) Mr. Jean-Baptiste Taché PAT
Rimouski (seat 2) Mr. Louis Bertrand PAT
Rouville (seat 1) Mr. Pierre-Martial Bardy PAT
Rouville (seat 2) Mr. Pierre Careau PAT
Saguenay (seat 1) Mr. François-Xavier Tessier (until 24-déc-1835) PAT
Mr. Charles Drolet (since 06-fév-1836) PAT
Saguenay (seat 2) Mr. André Cimon PAT
Saint Hyacinthe (seat 1) Mr. Louis Raynauld, dit Blanchard PAT
Saint Hyacinthe (seat 2) Mr. Thomas Boutillier PAT
Saint Maurice (seat 1) Mr. Valère Guillet (until 29-jun-1836) PAT
Mr. François Lesieur Desaulniers (since 12-aou-1836) PAT
Saint Maurice (seat 2) Mr. Pierre Bureau (until 06-jun-1836) PAT
Mr. Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie (since 12-aou-1836) PAT
Shefford (seat 1) Mr. Alphonso Wells BUR
Shefford (seat 2) Mr. Samuel Wood BUR
Sherbrooke (seat 1) Mr. Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy BUR
Sherbrooke (seat 2) Mr. John Moore BUR
Stanstead (seat 1) Mr. Marcus Child PAT
Stanstead (seat 2) Mr. John Grannis (until 17-oct-1836) PAT
Mr. Moses French Colby (since 13-jan-1837) BUR
Terrebonne (seat 1) Mr. Séraphin Bouc (until 29-jul-1837) PAT
Mr. André-Benjamin Papineau (since 18-sep-1837) PAT
Terrebonne (seat 2) Mr. Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine PAT
Trois-Rivières (seat 1) Mr. Edward Barnard PAT
Trois-Rivières (seat 2) Mr. René-Joseph Kimber PAT
Vaudreuil (seat 1) Mr. Charles-Ovide Perrault PAT
Vaudreuil (seat 2) Mr. Charles Rocbrune, dit Larocque PAT
Verchères (seat 1) Mr. Pierre Amiot PAT
Verchères (seat 2) Mr. Joseph-Toussaint Drolet PAT
William Henry Mr. John Pickell PAT
Yamaska (seat 1) Mr. Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan PAT
Yamaska (seat 2) Mr. Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour (Independent MHA during the legislature) PAT
ind.

Parliamentary Groups

Composition of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada in the 15th Legislature.

  PAT
PAT		 BUR
BUR		 PAT-M
PAT-M		 ind.
ind.		 vac.
vac.
Election (1834) 74 10 4 0 0
Dissolution (1838) 66 16 2 5 1

Composition de la Chambre d'assemblée    Composition de la Chambre d'assemblée

Legislative Council

Legislative Councillors

The Members of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada in the 15th Legislature.

Division Name Party
  Mr. Jonathan Sewell BUR
  Mr. John Caldwell BUR
  Mr. Herman Witsius Ryland BUR
  Mr. James Cuthbert BUR
  Mr. Charles William Grant BUR
  Mr. Pierre-Dominique Debartzch BUR
  Mr. Thomas Coffin BUR
  Mr. Roderick Mackenzie BUR
  Mr. Louis Gugy BUR
  Mr. William Bowman Felton BUR
  Mr. Matthew Bell BUR
  Mr. James Kerr BUR
  Mr. Edward Bowen BUR
  Mr. Toussaint Pothier BUR
  Mr. John Stewart BUR
  Mr. John Forsyth (until 27-déc-1837) BUR
  Mr. Charles James Stewart (until 13-jul-1837) BUR
  Mr. Samuel Hatt BUR
  Mr. Denis-Benjamin Viger PAT
  Mr. George Moffatt BUR
  Mr. François-Roch de Saint-Ours ind.
  Mr. Peter McGill (McCutcheon) BUR
  Mr. John Molson (père) (until 11-jan-1836) BUR
  Mr. Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière PAT
  Mr. François-Xavier Malhiot PAT
  Mr. Jean Dessaulles (until 20-jun-1835) PAT-M
  Mr. Barthélémy Joliette ?
  Mr. Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave ind.
  Mr. Robert Unwin Harwood BUR
  Mr. Robert Jones (Missisquoi) BUR
  Mr. James Baxter (until 18-nov-1837) BUR
  Mr. Antoine-Gaspard Couillard ?
  Mr. Louis Guy ?
  Mr. François Quirouet BUR
  Mr. Joseph Masson ?
  Mr. Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville (since 22-aou-1837) PAT
  Mr. John Neilson (since 22-aou-1837) ind.
  Mr. Melchior-Alphonse d'Irumberry de Salaberry (since 22-aou-1837) BUR
  Mr. Janvier-Domptail Lacroix (since 22-aou-1837) BUR
  Mr. Amable Dionne (since 22-aou-1837) PAT
  Mr. Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury (since 22-aou-1837) BUR
  Mr. John Pangman (since 22-aou-1837) ind.
  Mr. Gabriel Marchand (since 22-aou-1837; until 22-aou-1837) PAT
  Mr. John Malcolm Fraser (since 22-aou-1837) BUR
  Mr. René-Édouard Caron (since 22-aou-1837) BUR

Governor

Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Lord Aylmer, sworn in on October 20, 1830.

Archibald Acheson, 2th Earl of Gosford, sworn in on 24 août 1835.

Mr. John Colborne, appointed administrator in the absence of the governor from February 27, 1838 to May 29, 1838.

Last update: May 14, 2006

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