Parliament of the Province of Canada

6th Legislature (1858-1861)

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House of Assembly

MLAs

The Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in the 6th Legislature.

Riding Name Party
Argenteuil Mr. Sydney Robert Bellingham (until 12-mar-1860) CON
Mr. John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (since 12-mar-1860) LIB
Assomption Mr. Louis Archambeault BLE
Bagot Mr. Maurice Laframboise ROU
Beauce Mr. Dunbar Ross ROU
Beauharnois Mr. Gédéon Ouimet BLE
Bellechasse Mr. Octave-Cyrille Fortier BLE
Berthier Mr. Eugène-Urgel Piché ROU
Bonaventure Mr. John Meagher BLE
Brome Mr. James Moir Ferres CON
Chambly Mr. Louis Lacoste BLE
Champlain Mr. Joseph-Édouard Turcotte BLE
Charlevoix Mr. Cléophe Cimon BLE
Chateauguai Mr. Henry Starnes CON
Chicoutimi et Saguenay Mr. David Edward Price CON
Compton Mr. John Henry Pope CON
Deux-Montagnes Mr. Jean-Baptiste Daoust BLE
Dorchester Mr. Hector-Louis Langevin BLE
Drummond et Arthabaska Mr. Christopher Dunkin CON
Gaspé Mr. John Le Boutillier BLE
Hochelaga Mr. Joseph Laporte BLE
Huntingdon Mr. Robert Brown Somerville LIB
Iberville Mr. Charles Laberge (until 02-aou-1858) ROU
Mr. Charles Laberge (since 06-sep-1858) ROU
Islet Mr. Louis-Bonaventure Caron (until 07-jun-1858) ROU
Mr. Charles-François Fournier (since 07-jun-1858) BLE
Jacques Cartier Mr. François-Zéphirin Tassé BLE
Joliette Mr. Joseph-Hilarion Jobin ROU
Laprairie Mr. Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger BLE
Kamouraska Mr. Jean-Charles Chapais REF
Laval Mr. Pierre Labelle BLE
Lévis Mr. François-Xavier Lemieux (oncle) (until 02-aou-1858) L-CON
Mr. François-Xavier Lemieux (oncle) (since 28-aou-1858) LIB-M
Lotbinière Mr. John O'Farrell (until 17-mai-1858) CON
Mr. Lewis Thomas Drummond (since 02-oct-1858) ROU
Maskinongé Mr. Louis-Honoré Gauvreau (until 20-oct-1858) BLE
Mr. George Caron (since 14-déc-1858) BLE
Mégantic Mr. Noël Hébert ROU
Missisquoi Mr. Hannibal Hodges Whitney CON
Montcalm Mr. Joseph Dufresne BLE
Montmagny Mr. Joseph-Octave Beaubien BLE
Montmorency Mr. Joseph-Édouard Cauchon BLE
Montréal (seat 1) Mr. John Rose CON
Montréal (seat 2) Mr. Antoine-Aimé Dorion (until 02-aou-1858) ROU
Mr. Antoine-Aimé Dorion (since 09-sep-1858) ROU
Montréal (seat 3) Mr. Thomas D'Arcy McGee ROU
Napierville Mr. Jacques-Olivier Bureau ROU
Nicolet Mr. Joseph Gaudet BLE
Outaouais Mr. Denis-Émery Papineau ROU
Pontiac Mr. Edmund Heath CON
Portneuf Mr. Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau (until 02-aou-1858) LIB
Mr. Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau (since 11-sep-1858) LIB
Québec (seat 1) Mr. Charles Joseph Alleyn (until 16-avr-1860) CON
Mr. Charles Joseph Alleyn (since 07-mai-1860) CON
Québec (seat 2) Mr. Georges-Honoré Simard (until 16-avr-1860) BLE
Mr. Georges-Honoré Simard (since 07-mai-1860) BLE
Québec (seat 3) Mr. Hippolyte Dubord (until 16-avr-1860) BLE
vacant (since 16-avr-1860) vac.
Québec (comté de) Mr. Charles Panet BLE
Richelieu Mr. Jacques-Félix Sincennes BLE
Richmond et Wolfe Mr. William Hoste Webb CON
Rimouski Mr. Michel-Guillaume Baby BLE
Rouville Mr. Thomas Edmund Campbell CON
St. Hyacinthe Mr. Louis-Victor Sicotte BLE
St. Jean Mr. François Bourassa ROU
St. Maurice Mr. Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers BLE
Shefford Mr. Lewis Thomas Drummond (until 05-aou-1858) ROU
Mr. Asa Belknap Foster (du 14-sep-1858 au 24-sep-1860) CON
Sherbrooke Mr. Alexander Tilloch Galt (Liberal-Conservative MLA on 02-aou-1858) ind.
L-CON
Soulanges Mr. Dominique-Amable Coutlée BLE
Stanstead Mr. Timothy Lee Terrill CON
Témiscouata Mr. Benjamin Dionne BLE
Terrebonne Mr. Louis-Siméon Morin (until 19-jan-1860) BLE
Mr. Louis-Siméon Morin (since 21-fév-1860) BLE
Trois-Rivières Mr. William McDonell Dawson CON
Vaudreuil Mr. Robert Unwin Harwood (until 03-oct-1860) CON
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Mongenais (since 26-nov-1860) BLE
Verchères Mr. George-Étienne Cartier BLE
Yamaska Mr. Ignace Gill BLE

Parliamentary Groups

Composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in the 6th Legislature1.

  CON
BLE / CON2		 REF
REF3		 LIB
ROU / LIB4		 ind.
ind.		 vac.
vac.
Election (January 13, 1858) Canada East 48 1 15 1 0
Canada West 24 5 35 1 0
Total 72 6 50 2 0
Dissolution (June 10, 1861) Canada East 47 1 16 0 1
Canada West 26 4 34 1 0
Total 73 5 50 1 1

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

2 "Bleus", "Conservatives" and "Liberal-Conservatives" in Canada East; "Conservatives" and "Liberal-Conservatives" in Canada West.

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

4 "Rouges" et "Liberals" in Canada East; "Clear Grits" and "Liberals" in Canada West.

Legislative Council

Legislative Councillors

The Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in the 6th Legislature.

Division Name Party
Canada Est Mr. Adam Ferrie ind.
Canada Est Mr. Paul Holland Knowlton TOR
Canada Est Mr. Peter McGill (McCutcheon) (until 28-sep-1860) TOR
Canada Est Mr. Philip Henry Moore TOR
Canada Est Mr. Joseph Dionne (until 27-déc-1859) ind.
Canada Est Mr. William Walker ind.
Canada Est Mr. James Ferrier TOR
Canada Est Mr. Denis-Benjamin Viger (until 17-mar-1858) 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 (until 05-mar-1859) LIB
Canada Est Mr. Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu 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 BLE
Canada Est Mr. Eusèbe Cartier BLE
Alma Mr. Joseph-Flavien Armand (since 29-oct-1858) CON
Bedford Mr. Asa Belknap Foster (since 29-oct-1860) CON
De la Vallière Mr. Jean-Baptiste-Georges Proulx (since 06-nov-1860) ROU
De Salaberry Mr. Louis Renaud BLE
Golfe Mr. Ulric-Joseph Tessier (since 17-nov-1858) ROU
Grandville Mr. Luc Letellier de Saint-Just (since 31-oct-1860) ROU
Inkerman Mr. John Hamilton (since 03-nov-1860) CON
La Salle Mr. Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay (since 01-oct-1858) BLE
Lauzon Mr. Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay BLE
Les Laurentides Mr. Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière ROU
Mille-Isles Mr. Édouard Masson ind.
Montarville Mr. Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski (since 02-nov-1858; until 18-avr-1861) ROU
vacant (since 18-avr-1861) vac.
Repentigny Mr. Pierre-Urgel Archambault (since 01-oct-1858) ROU
Rigaud Mr. Robert Unwin Harwood (since 05-nov-1860) CON
Rougemont Mr. Louis-Antoine Dessaulles ROU
Sorel Mr. Jean-Baptiste Guévremont (since 28-oct-1858; until 30-avr-1860) ROU
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Guévremont (since 18-jun-1860) ROU
Stadacona Mr. Pierre-Gabriel Huot (since 28-sep-1860; until 16-mai-1861) ROU
vacant (since 16-mai-1861) vac.
Wellington Mr. Hollis Smith LIB

Parliamentary Groups

Composition of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in the 6th Legislature.

  CON
BLE / CON		 REF
REF		 LIB
ROU / LIB		 ind.
ind.		 vac.
vac.
Election (January 13, 1858) Canada East 13 0 6 5 0
Dissolution (June 10, 1861) Canada East 16 0 10 4 2

Governor

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

Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, appointed administrator in the absence of the governor on October 25, 1861, sworn in on November 28, 1861.

Joint Prime Ministers

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.

Mr. George Brown (LIB), MLA for Oxford (Canada West), and Mr. Antoine-Aimé Dorion (ROU), MLA for Montréal (Canada East), took office on August 2, 1858.

Mr. George-Étienne Cartier (BLE), MLA for Verchères (Canada East), and Mr. John Alexander Macdonald (CON), MLA for Kingston (Canada West), took office on August 6, 1858.

Last update: May 14, 2006

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