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Parliament of the Province of Canada

3^th Legislature (1848-1851)

FR EN ES

• Begining of the Legislature: January 24, 1848 (Return of the Writs).
• End of the Legislature: November 6, 1851 (Dissolution of the Legislature).

House of Assembly

MLAs

The Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in the 3^th Legislature.

Riding	Name	Party
Beauharnois	Mr. Jacob De Witt	LIB
Bellechasse	Mr. Augustin-Norbert Morin	PAT
Berthier	Mr. David Morrison Armstrong	REF
Bonaventure	Mr. John Meagher	REF
Chambly	Mr. Pierre Beaubien (until 31-jul-1849)	PAT
	Mr. Louis Lacoste (since 25-sep-1849)	REF
Champlain	Mr. Louis Guillet	REF
Deux-Montagnes	Mr. William Henry Scott	REF
Dorchester	Mr. François-Xavier Lemieux (oncle)	PAT
Drummond	Mr. Robert Nugent Watts (Reform MLA in 1850)	LIB
		REF
Gaspé	Mr. Robert Christie	ind.
Huntingdon	Mr. Tancrède Sauvageau (Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF
Ilet	Mr. Charles-François Fournier	PAT
Kamouraska	Mr. Pierre Canac, dit Marquis (Reform MLA during the legislature; until 25-nov-1850)	PAT
		REF
	Mr. Luc Letellier de Saint-Just (since 01-fév-1851)	LIB
Leinster	Mr. Norbert Dumas (Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF
Lotbinière	Mr. Joseph Laurin	PAT
Mégantic	Mr. Dominick Daly	TOR
Missiskoui	Mr. William Badgley	TOR
Montmorency	Mr. Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	PAT
Montréal (seat 1)	Mr. Benjamin Holmes (Reform MLA in 1849)	PAT
		REF
Montréal (seat 2)	Mr. Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine	REF
Montréal (comté de)	Mr. André Jobin	REF
Nicolet	Mr. Thomas Fortier	PAT
Outaouais	Mr. John Egan (Independent Moderate MLA during the legislature)	LIB
		MOD-I
Portneuf	Mr. Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay (Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF
Québec (seat 1)	Mr. Thomas Cushing Aylwin	LIB
Québec (seat 2)	Mr. Jean Chabot (until 13-déc-1849)	PAT
	Mr. Jean Chabot (from 29-jan-1850 to 31-mar-1850)	REF
Québec (comté de)	Mr. Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau	REF
Richelieu	Mr. Wolfred Nelson (Reform MLA during the legislature)	LIB
		REF
Rimouski	Mr. Joseph-Charles Taché	PAT
Rouville	Mr. Pierre Davignon (Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF
Saguenay	Mr. Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière	PAT
Saint Hyacinthe	Mr. Thomas Boutillier	REF
Saint Maurice	Mr. Louis-Joseph Papineau (Liberal MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		LIB
Shefford	Mr. Lewis Thomas Drummond (Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF
Sherbrooke (cité de)	Mr. Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy	TOR
Sherbrooke (comté de)	Mr. Samuel Brooks (until 22-mar-1849)	TOR
	Mr. Alexander Tilloch Galt (from 17-avr-1849 to 10-jan-1850)	MOD-I
	Mr. John Sewell Sanborn (since 09-mar-1850)	LIB
Stanstead	Mr. John McConnell (Independent Conservative MLA in 1849)	TOR
		CON-I
Terrebonne	Mr. Louis-Michel Viger	PAT
Trois-Rivières	vacant (until 28-avr-1848)	vac.
	Mr. Antoine Polette (since 28-avr-1848; Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF
Vaudreuil	Mr. Jean-Baptiste Mongenais (Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF
Verchères	Mr. James Leslie (until 11-mar-1848)	LIB
	Mr. George-Étienne Cartier (since 07-avr-1848)	REF
Yamaska	Mr. Michel Fourquin, dit Léveillé (Reform MLA during the legislature)	PAT
		REF

Parliamentary Groups

Composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in the 3^th Legislature¹.

		TOR2	REF3	PAT / LIB4	CON-I	MOD-I	ind.	vac.
Election (January 24, 1848)	Canada East	4	11	25	0	0	1	1
	Canada West	18	23	0	0	0	1	0
	Total	22	34	25	0	0	2	1
Dissolution (November 6, 1851)	Canada East	2	25	12	1	1	1	0
	Canada West	18	22	1	0	0	1	0
	Total	20	47	13	1	1	2	0

¹ Sources: Assemblée nationale du Québec (Canada East) and Wikipedia (Canada West).

² "Tories" in Canada East and in Canada West.

³ "Reform" in Canada East and in Canada West.

⁴ "Patriotes" and "Libéraux" in Canada East; "Clear Grits" in Canada West.

Legislative Council

Legislative Councillors

The Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in the 3^th Legislature.

Division	Name	Party
Canada Est	Mr. François-Pierre Bruneau (until 04-mar-1851)	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. René-Édouard Caron	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. Adam Ferrie	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. Barthélemy Joliette (until 21-jun-1850)	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. Paul Holland Knowlton	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. Peter McGill (McCutcheon)	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. George Pemberton (until 29-jan-1849)	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. Jean-Baptiste Taché (until 22-aou-1849)	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. Gabriel Roy (until 17-déc-1848)	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. Philip Henry Moore	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. Amable Dionne	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. Joseph Dionne	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. William Walker	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. Louis Massue (until 01-mai-1851)	PAT
Canada Est	Mr. Pierre-Amable Boucher de Boucherville	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. John Neilson (until 01-fév-1848)	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. James Ferrier	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. Denis-Benjamin Viger (since 17-fév-1848)	TOR
Canada Est	Mr. James Leslie (since 23-mai-1848)	LIB
Canada Est	Mr. Étienne-Paschal Taché (since 23-mai-1848)	BLE
Canada Est	Mr. Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel (since 08-sep-1848)	LIB
Canada Est	Mr. Joseph Bourret (since 21-nov-1848)	LIB
Canada Est	Mr. Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu (since 21-nov-1848)	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. Louis Méthot (since 12-déc-1848)	ind.
Canada Est	Mr. Joseph-Ovide Turgeon (since 28-déc-1848)	ind.

Parliamentary Groups

Composition of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in the 3^th Legislature.

		TOR	REF	PAT / LIB	CON-I	MOD-I	ind.	vac.
Election (January 24, 1848)	Canada East	9	0	1	0	0	7	0
Dissolution (November 6, 1851)	Canada East	7	0	3	0	0	8	0

Governor

James Bruce, 8^th Earl of Elgin and 12^th Earl of Kincardine, sworn in on January 30, 1847.

Joint Prime Ministers

Mr. Henry Sherwood (TOR), MLA for Toronto (Canada West) (sole Prime Minister from December 7, 1847), and Mr. Denis-Benjamin Papineau (REF), MLA for Outaouais (Canada East), took office on May 28, 1847.

Mr. Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (REF), MLA for Montréal (Canada East), and Mr. Robert Baldwin (REF), MLA for North York (Canada West), took office on March 11, 1848.

Mr. Francis Hincks (REF), MLA for Oxford (Canada West), and Mr. Augustin-Norbert Morin (REF), MLA for Bellechasse (Canada East), took office on October 28, 1851.

Last update: May 14, 2006

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