Parliament of the Province of Canada

5th Legislature (1854-1858)

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House of Assembly

MLAs

The Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in the 5th Legislature.

Riding Name Party
Argenteuil Mr. Sydney Robert Bellingham (until 29-nov-1854) REF
Mr. Sydney Robert Bellingham (from 05-avr-1855 to 03-avr-1856) REF
Mr. Sydney Robert Bellingham (since 12-mai-1856) CON
Assomption Mr. Joseph Papin ROU
Bagot Mr. Timothée Brodeur (until 13-sep-1854) REF
Mr. Timothée Brodeur (since 20-oct-1854; Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Beauce Mr. Dunbar Ross (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Beauharnois Mr. Charles Daoust ROU
Bellechasse Mr. Jean Chabot (until 22 sep-1854) REF
Mr. Octave-Cyrille Fortier (since 17-oct-1854) BLE
Berthier Mr. Pierre-Eustache Dostaler (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Bonaventure Mr. John Meagher REF
Chambly Mr. Noël Darche ROU
Champlain Mr. Thomas Marchildon ROU
Chateauguai Mr. Jacob De Witt ROU
Chicoutimi et Tadoussac Mr. Augustin-Norbert Morin (until 27-jan-1855) REF
Mr. David Edward Price (since 26-avr-1855) CON
Compton Mr. John Sewell Sanborn LIB
Deux-Montagnes Mr. Jean-Baptiste Daoust REF
Dorchester Mr. Barthélémy Pouliot (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Drummond et Arthabaska Mr. Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion ROU
Gaspé Mr. John Le Boutillier (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Huntingdon Mr. Robert Brown Somerville ind.
Iberville Mr. Charles Laberge ROU
Islet Mr. Charles-François Fournier REF
Joliette Mr. Joseph-Hilarion Jobin ROU
Kamouraska Mr. Jean-Charles Chapais (until 29-nov-1854) REF
Mr. Jean-Charles Chapais (since 30-jan-1855) REF
Laprairie Mr. Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Laval Mr. Pierre Labelle (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Lévis Mr. François-Xavier Lemieux (oncle) (until 27-jan-1855) BLE
Mr. François-Xavier Lemieux (oncle) (since 10-fév-1855) BLE
Lotbinière Mr. John O'Farrell (Conservative MLA during the legislature) MOD
CON
Maskinongé Mr. Joseph-Édouard Turcotte REF
Mégantic Mr. William Rhodes (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Missiscoui, division Est Mr. James Moir Ferres (Reform MLA, then Conservative MLA during the legislature) TOR
REF
CON
Missiscoui, division Ouest Mr. Hannibal Hodges Whitney REF
Montcalm Mr. Joseph Dufresne (Bleu MLA during the legislature) MOD
BLE
Montmagny Mr. Louis-Napoléon Casault (Bleu MLA during the legislature) MOD
BLE
Montmorency Mr. Joseph-Édouard Cauchon BLE
Montréal, division Hochelaga Mr. Joseph Laporte REF
Montréal, division Jacques-Cartier Mr. Michel-François Valois ROU
Montréal (seat 1) Mr. Antoine-Aimé Dorion ROU
Montréal (seat 2) Mr. Luther Hamilton Holton ROU
Montréal (seat 3) Mr. John Young ROU
Napierville Mr. Jacques-Olivier Bureau ROU
Nicolet Mr. Thomas Fortier REF
Outaouais Mr. Alanson Cooke ROU
Pontiac Mr. John Egan (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Portneuf Mr. Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau REF
Québec (seat 1) Mr. Jean Chabot (until 20-sep-1856) REF
Mr. Georges-Honoré Simard (since 27-oct-1856) BLE
Québec (seat 2) Mr. Jean Blanchet (Bleu MLA during the legislature; until 16-mar-1857) REF
BLE
Mr. George Okill Stuart (since 14-avr-1857) CON-I
Québec (seat 3) Mr. Charles Joseph Alleyn (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Québec (comté de) Mr. Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (until jul-1855) REF
Mr. François Évanturel (since 07-aou-1855) BLE
Richelieu Mr. Jean-Baptiste Guévremont (Bleu MLA during the legislature) MOD
BLE
Rimouski Mr. Joseph-Charles Taché (until 10-jan-1857) BLE
Mr. Michel-Guillaume Baby (since 17-fév-1857) BLE
Rouville Mr. Joseph-Napoléon Poulin (until 03-sep-1856) BLE
Mr. William Henry Chaffers (since 04-oct-1856) ROU
Saguenay Mr. Pierre-Gabriel Huot (until 17-nov-1854) ind.
Mr. Pierre-Gabriel Huot (since 18-jan-1855) LIB
St. Hyacinthe Mr. Louis-Victor Sicotte (until 25-nov-1857) LIB
vacant (since 25-nov-1857) vac.
St. Jean Mr. François Bourassa ROU
St. Maurice Mr. Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Shefford Mr. Lewis Thomas Drummond BLE
Sherbrooke Mr. Alexander Tilloch Galt ind.
Sherbrooke et Wolfe Mr. William Locker Pickmore Felton (Conservative MLA during the legislature) REF
CON
Soulanges Mr. Luc-Hyacinthe Masson (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
BLE
Stanstead Mr. Timothy Lee Terrill (Reform MLA in 1856; until 24-mai-1856) LIB
Mr. Timothy Lee Terrill (since 10-jun-1856) REF
Témiscouata Mr. Benjamin Dionne REF
Terrebonne Mr. Gédéon-Mélasippe Prévost (until 29-mai-1857) ROU
Mr. Louis-Siméon Morin (since 23-jun-1857) BLE
Trois-Rivières Mr. Antoine Polette (Bleu MLA in 1856) MOD
BLE
Vaudreuil Mr. Jean-Baptiste Mongenais BLE
Verchères Mr. George-Étienne Cartier (until 27-jan-1855) REF
Mr. George-Étienne Cartier (since 26-fév-1855) REF
Yamaska Mr. Ignace Gill (Bleu MLA during the legislature) REF
CON

Parliamentary Groups

Composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in the 5th Legislature1.

  CON
BLE / CON2		 REF
REF3		 LIB
ROU / LIB4		 MOD
MOD		 CON-I
CON-I		 ind.
ind.		 vac.
vac.
Election (August 10, 1854) Canada East 7 31 19 5 0 3 0
Canada West 25 19 20 0 0 1 0
Total 32 50 39 5 0 4 0
Dissolution (November 28, 1857) Canada East 30 13 18 0 1 2 1
Canada West 25 18 21 0 0 1 0
Total 55 31 39 0 1 3 1

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

2 "Bleus" and "Conservatives" in Canada East; "Conservatives" in Canada West.

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

4 "Rouges" and "Liberals" in Canada East; "Clear Grits" and "Left-wing Reform" in Canada West.

Legislative Council

Legislative Councillors

The Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in the 5th Legislature.

Division Name Party
Canada Est Mr. René-Édouard Caron (until 16-mar-1857) ind.
Canada Est Mr. Adam Ferrie ind.
Canada Est Mr. Paul Holland Knowlton TOR
Canada Est Mr. Peter McGill (McCutcheon) TOR
Canada Est Mr. Philip Henry Moore TOR
Canada Est Mr. Joseph Dionne ind.
Canada Est Mr. William Walker ind.
Canada Est Mr. Pierre-Amable Boucher de Boucherville (dien on 30-nov-1857 after the dissolution of the legislature) ind.
Canada Est Mr. James Ferrier TOR
Canada Est Mr. Denis-Benjamin Viger TOR
Canada Est Mr. James Leslie LIB
Canada Est Mr. Étienne-Paschal Taché BLE
Canada Est Mr. Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel LIB
Canada Est Mr. Joseph Bourret LIB
Canada Est Mr. Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu ind.
Canada Est Mr. Louis Méthot (until 16-mar-1857) ind.
Canada Est Mr. Joseph-Ovide Turgeon (until 09-nov-1856) ind.
Canada Est Mr. Louis Panet BLE
Canada Est Mr. Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau BLE
Canada Est Mr. Charles Wilson BLE
Canada Est Mr. David Morrison Armstrong (since 08-fév-1855) BLE
Canada Est Mr. Eusèbe Cartier (since 08-fév-1855) BLE
Canada Est Mr. Joseph Légaré (since 08-fév-1855; until 21-jun-1855) BLE
De Salaberry Mr. Louis Renaud (since 27-oct-1856) BLE
Lauzon Mr. Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay (since 29-sep-1856) BLE
Les Laurentides Mr. Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière (since 29-sep-1856) ROU
Mille-Isles Mr. Édouard Masson (since 31-oct-1856) ind.
Rougemont Mr. Louis-Antoine Dessaulles (since 14-oct-1856) ROU
Wellington Mr. Hollis Smith (since 11-oct-1856) LIB

Parliamentary Groups

Composition of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in the 5th Legislature.

  CON
BLE / CON		 REF
REF		 LIB
ROU / LIB		 CON-I
CON-I		 MOD
MOD		 ind.
ind.		 vac.
vac.
Election (August 10, 1854) Canada East 9 0 3 0 0 8 0
Dissolution (November 28, 1857) Canada East 13 0 6 0 0 6 0

Governor

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

Sir Edmund Walker Head, sworn in on December 19, 1854.

Joint Prime Ministers

Mr. Allan Napier MacNab (L-CON), MLA for Hamilton (Canada West), and Mr. Augustin-Norbert Morin (REF), MLA for Terrebonne (Canada East), took office on September 11, 1854.

Mr. Allan Napier MacNab (L-CON), MLA for Hamilton (Canada West), and Mr. Étienne-Paschal Taché (BLE), conseiller législatif (Canada East), took office on January 27, 1855.

Mr. Étienne-Paschal Taché (BLE), conseiller législatif (Canada East), and Mr. John Alexander Macdonald (CON), MLA for Kingston (Canada West), took office on May 24, 1856.

Mr. John Alexander Macdonald (CON), MLA for Kingston (Canada West), and Mr. George-Étienne Cartier (BLE), MLA for Verchères (Canada East), took office on November 26, 1857.

Last update: May 14, 2006

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