15th Parliament of Lower Canada

The 15th Parliament of Lower Canada was in session from March 21, 1835, to March 27, 1838. Elections to the Legislative Assembly in Lower Canada had been held in October 1834. The lower house was dissolved following the Lower Canada Rebellion and Lower Canada was administered by an appointed Special Council until the Act of Union in 1840 established a new lower chamber for the Province of Canada. All sessions were held at Quebec City.

The 15th Parliament of Lower Canada was elected in 1834. The general election of 1834 allowed voters of Lower Canada to choose 88 deputies, spread over a total of 46 constituencies -- four single member districts (Magantic, Drummond, Montmorency and William-Henry) and 42 2-seat districts.

Members

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Riding Member First elected / previously elected
  Beauce Antoine-Charles Taschereau 1830
  Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau[a] 1830
  Joseph-André Taschereau (1835) 1835
  Beauharnois Charles Archambault 1830
  Jacob De Witt 1830
  Bellechasse Augustin-Norbert Morin 1830
  Nicolas Boissonnault 1830
  Berthier Alexis Mousseau 1820, 1827
  Jacques Deligny[b] 1820
  Norbert Éno (1837) 1837
  Bonaventure Édouard Thibaudeau[c] 1830
  James McCracken (1836) 1836
  Joseph-François Deblois 1834
  Chambly Louis Lacoste 1834
  Louis-Michel Viger 1830
  Champlain Olivier Trudel 1830
  Pierre-Antoine Dorion 1830
  Deux-Montagnes William Henry Scott 1829
  Jean-Joseph Girouard 1831
  Dorchester Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin 1834
  Jean Bouffard 1832
  Drummond[d] Edward Toomy 1833
  Henry Menut (1836) 1836
  Gaspé John Le Boutillier 1833
  William Power 1832
  Kamouraska Amable Dionne[e] 1830
  Alexandre Fraser (1835) 1835
  Pierre Canac, dit Marquis 1834
  L'Acadie Merritt Hotchkiss 1834
  Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté 1834
  Lachenaie Charles Courteau 1824, 1830
  Jean-Marie Rochon[f] 1830
  Ludger Duvernay (1837) 1837
  Laprairie Jean-Moïse Raymond 1824
  Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal 1834
  L'Assomption Édouard-Étienne Rodier 1832
  Jean-Baptiste Meilleur 1834
  L'Islet Jean-Baptiste Fortin 1820
  Jean-Charles Létourneau 1827
  Lotbinière Louis Méthot 1830
  Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël 1830
  Mégantic John Greaves Clapham 1834
  Missisquoi Ephraim Knight 1834
  William Baker 1834
  Montmorency[d] Elzéar Bédard[g] 1832
  Nicolas Lefrançois (1836) 1836
  Vital Têtu (1836) 1836
  Montreal County Côme-Séraphin Cherrier 1834
  Louis-Joseph Papineau[h] 1808
  André Jobin (1835)[h] 1835
  Montreal East Joseph Roy 1834
  James Leslie 1824
  Montreal West Louis-Joseph Papineau 1808
  Robert Nelson 1834
  Nicolet Jean-Baptiste Proulx 1820
  Louis Bourdages[i] 1804,[j] 1815
  Jean-Baptiste Hébert (1835) 1835
  Orléans Alexis Godbout 1834
  Jean-Baptiste Cazeau 1830
  Ottawa Baxter Bowman 1834
  James Blackburn 1834
  Portneuf Hector-Simon Huot 1830
  François-Xavier Larue 1826
  Quebec County Louis-Théodore Besserer 1833
  Jean Blanchet 1834
  Quebec (Lower Town) George Vanfelson[k] 1832
  John Munn (1837) 1837
  Hippolyte Dubord 1834
  Quebec (Upper Town) René-Édouard Caron[l] 1834
  Andrew Stuart (1836) 1814, 1820, 1824, 1836
  Amable Berthelot 1814,[m] 1824,[n] 1834
  Richelieu Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury[o] 1832
  Jacques Dorion 1830
  Rimouski Jean-Baptiste Taché 1820, 1834
  Louis Bertrand 1832
  Rouville Pierre-Martial Bardy 1834
  Pierre Careau 1833
  Saguenay François-Xavier Tessier[p] 1833
  Charles Drolet (1836) 1836
  André Cimon 1832
  Saint-Hyacinthe Thomas Boutillier 1834
  Louis Raynaud, dit Blanchard 1834
  Saint-Maurice Valère Guillet[q] 1830
  François Lesieur Desaulniers (1836) 1836
  Pierre Bureau (1836)[r] 1819
  Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie (1836) 1836
  Shefford Alphonso Wells 1834
  Samuel Wood 1832
  Sherbrooke John Moore 1834
  Bartholomew Gugy 1834
  Stanstead John Grannis[s] 1834
  Moses French Colby (1837) 1837
  Marcus Child 1829, 1834
  Terrebonne Séraphin Bouc[t] 1834
  André-Benjamin Papineau (1837) 1837
  Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine 1830
  Trois-Rivières Edward Barnard 1834
  René-Joseph Kimber 1834
  Vaudreuil Charles-Ovide Perrault 1834
  Charles Rocbrune, dit Larocque 1833
  Verchères Pierre Amiot 1813
  Joseph-Toussaint Drolet 1832
  William-Henry John Pickel 1834
  Yamaska Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan 1834
  Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour 1832

Notes

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  1. resigned in November 1835; Joseph-André Taschereau was elected in a by-election held in December 1835.
  2. died in January 1837; Norbert Éno was elected in a by-election held in March 1837.
  3. died in August 1836; James McCracken was elected in a by-election held in December 1836.
  4. 1 2 second seat added in 1836
  5. resigned in May 1835; Alexandre Fraser was elected in a by-election held in June 1835.
  6. Died in February 1837; Ludger Duvernay was elected in a by-election held in May 1837.
  7. resigned to accept a position as judge in February 1836; Nicolas Lefrançois was elected in a by-election held in March 1836.
  8. 1 2 Resigned immediately. Papineau was elected in Montreal County and Montreal West, choosing to represent the latter; André Jobin was elected in a by-election held in November 1835.
  9. died in January 1835; Jean-Baptiste Hébert was elected in a by-election held in April 1835.
  10. Richelieu
  11. resigned his seat in June 1837; John Munn was elected in a by-election held in July 1837.
  12. resigned in March 1836; Andrew Stuart was elected in a by-election held in March 1836.
  13. Trois-Rivières
  14. Cite error: The named reference 'tr' was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. resigned his seat in August 1837 after being appointed to Legislative Council
  16. died in December 1835; Charles Drolet was elected in a by-election held in February 1836.
  17. resigned in June 1836; François Lesieur Desaulniers was elected in a by-election held in August 1836.
  18. died in June 1836; Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie was elected in a by-election held in August 1836.
  19. resigned in October 1836; Moses French Colby was elected in a by-election held in January 1837.
  20. died in July 1837; André-Benjamin Papineau was elected in a by-election held in September 1837.

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