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12th Quebec Legislature

The 12th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from June 8, 1908, to May 15, 1912. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Lomer Gouin was the governing party.

Seats per political party

After the 1908 elections

Affiliation	Members
57
14
	Ligue nationaliste canadienne
Total
74
Government Majority
43

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1908 election:

Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
William Alexander Weir	Liberal	Argenteuil	1897
John Hay (1910)	Liberal	1910
Paul Tourigny		Liberal	Arthabaska	1900
Frédéric-Hector Daigneault	Liberal	Bagot	1900
Arthur Godbout	Liberal	Beauce	1902
Arthur Plante	Conservative	Beauharnois	1898, 1908
Adélard Turgeon	Liberal	Bellechasse	1890
Antonin Galipeault (1909)	Liberal	1909
Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal	Berthier	1904
John Hall Kelly	Liberal	Bonaventure	1904
William Frederick Vilas	Liberal	Brome	1906
Maurice Perrault	Liberal	Chambly	1900
Lesieur Desaulniers (1909)	Liberal	1909
Pierre-Calixte Neault	Liberal	Champlain	1900
Pierre D'Auteuil	Conservative	Charlevoix	1897, 1904
Hospice Dumtremble	Conservative	Châteauguay	1908
Honoré Mercier Jr. (1908)	Liberal	1907, 1908
Honoré Petit	Liberal	Chicoutimi et Saguenay	1892
Allen Wright Girard	Conservative	Compton	1900
Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1908
Alfred Morissett	Liberal	Dorchester	1904
Joseph Laferté	Liberal	Drummond	1901
Louis-Jules Allard (1910)	Liberal	1897, 1910
Louis-Joseph Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé	1904
Joseph-Léonide Perron (1910)	Liberal	1910
Louis-Jérémie Décarie	Liberal	Hochelaga	1904
William H. Walker	Liberal	Huntingdon	1900
Joseph-Aldéric Benoît	Liberal	Iberville	1906
Louis-Albin Theriault	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1906
Philémon Cousineau	Conservative	Jacques Cartier	1908
Joseph-Mathias Tellier	Conservative	Joliette	1892
Louis-Rodolphe Roy	Liberal	Kamouraska	1897
Louis-Auguste Dupuis (1909)	Liberal	1909
Theodore-Louis-Antoine Broet	Liberal	Lac St-Jean	1908
Jean-Baptiste Carbonneau (1908)	Liberal	1908
Ésioff-Léon Patenaude	Conservative	Laprairie	1908
Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption	1908
Joseph-Wenceslas Lévesque	Liberal	Laval	1908
Jean-Cléophas Blouin	Liberal	Lévis	1901
Laetare Roy (1911)	Liberal	1911
Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	L'Islet	1902
Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière	1908
Georges Lafontaine	Conservative	Maskinongé	1904
Donat Caron	Liberal	Matane	1899
David Henry Pennington	Conservative	Mégantic	1908
Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin	Liberal	Missisquoi	1900
Joseph Sylvestre	Conservative	Montcalm	1908
Armand Lavergne	Ligue nationaliste canadienne	Montmagny	1908
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency	1900
Georges-Albini Lacombe	Liberal	Montréal division no. 1	1897
Napoléon Séguin (1908)	Liberal	1908
Henri Bourassa	Ligue nationaliste canadienne	Montréal division no. 2	1908
Clement Robillard (1909)	Liberal	1909
Godfroy Langlois	Liberal	Montréal division no. 3	1904
John Thomas Finnie	Liberal	Montréal division no. 4	1908
Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal division no. 5	1907
Denis Tansey	Conservative	Montréal division no. 6	1908
Michael James Walsh (1908)	Liberal	1904, 1908
Cyprien Dorris	Liberal	Napierville	1905
Charles Ramsay Devlin	Liberal	Nicolet	1907
Ferdinand-Ambroise Gendron	Liberal	Ottawa	1904
Tancrède Charles Gaboury	Liberal	Pontiac	1908
Lomer Gouin	Liberal	Portneuf	1897
Cyrille Fraser Delage	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1901
Amédée Robitaille	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1897
Eugène Leclerc (1908)	Liberal	1908
Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est	1908
John Charles Kaine	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1904
Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin	Liberal	Richelieu	1886, 1897
Peter Samuel George Mackenzie	Liberal	Richmond	1900
Pierre-Émile D'Anjou	Liberal	Rimouski	1907
Alfred Girard	Liberal	Rouville	1890, 1900
Joseph-Edmond Robert (1908)	Liberal	1908
Henri Bourassa	Ligue nationaliste canadienne	St. Hyacinthe	1908
Gabriel Marchand III	Liberal	St. Jean	1908
Marcellin Robert (1910)	Liberal	1910
Georges-Isidore Delisle	Liberal	St. Maurice	1908
Charles-Eugene Côté	Liberal	St. Sauveur	1905
Joseph-Alphonse Langlois (1909)	Parti ouvrier	1909
Ludger-Pierre Bernard	Conservative	Shefford	1904
Pantaléon Pelletier	Liberal	Sherbrooke	1900
Calixte-Émile Therrien (1911)	Liberal	1911
Joseph-Octave Mousseau	Liberal	Soulanges	1904
Prosper-Alfred Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead	1904
Napoléon Dion	Liberal	Témiscouata	1900
Jean Prévost	Liberal	Terrebonne	1900
Joseph-Adolphe Tessier	Liberal	Trois-Rivières	1904
Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil	1901
Amédée Geoffrion	Liberal	Verchères	1908
Napoléon-Pierre Tanguay	Liberal	Wolfe	1904
Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette	Liberal	Yamaska	1905

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in this mandate during by-elections

Jean-Baptiste Carbonneau, Quebec Liberal Party, Lac St-Jean, October 14, 1908
Joseph-Edmond Robert, Quebec Liberal Party, Rouville, October 26, 1908
Napoléon Séguin, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal division no. 1, December 21, 1908
Honoré Mercier Jr., Quebec Liberal Party, Châteauguay, December 28, 1908
Michael James Walsh, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal division no. 6, December 28, 1908
Eugène Leclerc, Quebec Liberal Party, Québec Centre, December 28, 1908
Antonin Galipeault, Quebec Liberal Party, Bellechasse, February 2, 1909
Lesieur Desaulniers, Quebec Liberal Party, Chambly, November 12, 1909
Clement Robillard, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal division no. 2, November 12, 1909
Joseph-Alphonse Langlois, Parti ouvrier, St. Sauveur, November 12, 1909
Louis-Auguste Dupuis, Quebec Liberal Party, Kamouraska, December 6, 1909
Joseph-Léonide Perron, Quebec Liberal Party, Gaspé, February 17, 1910
John Hay, Quebec Liberal Party, Argenteuil, March 5, 1910
Louis-Jules Allard, Quebec Liberal Party, Drummond, March 5, 1910
Marcellin Robert, Quebec Liberal Party, St. Jean, December 29, 1910
Calixte-Émile Therrien, Quebec Liberal Party, Sherbrooke, August 17, 1911
Laetare Roy, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, September 21, 1911

Cabinet Ministers

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Lomer Gouin
Agriculture: Jules Allard (1908–1909), Jérémie-Louis Décarie (1909), Joseph-Edouard Caron (1909–1912)
Colonisation, Mines and Fishing: Charles Devlin Ramsey
Public Works and Labor: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Lands and Forests: Adélard Turgeon (1908–1909), Jules Allard (1909–1912)
Roads: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1912)
Attorney General:Lomer Gouin
Provincial secretary: Louis-Rodolphe Roy (1908–1909), Louis-Jérémie Décarie (1909–1912)
Treasurer: William Alexander Weir (1908–1910), Peter Samuel George MacKenzie (1910–1912)
Members without portfolios: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1909), Narcisse Pérodeau (1910–1912)

New electoral districts

The electoral map was reformed in 1912 just a few months prior to the general elections later that year.

Chicoutimi was formed after being split from Saguenay which itself merged with Charlevoix to form Charlevoix—Saguenay (provincial electoral district).
Frontenac was formed from parts of Beauce and Compton
Labelle was formed from parts of Ottawa
Hochelaga was split into five new districts : Maisonneuve, Montréal-Hochelaga, Westmount, Montréal-Laurier and Montréal-Dorion.
Montréal division no. 6 was renamed Montréal–Sainte-Anne.
Montréal division no. 1 was renamed Montréal–Sainte-Marie.
Montréal division no. 5 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Georges.
Montréal division no. 2 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Jacques.
Montréal division no. 4 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Laurent.
Montréal division no. 3 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Louis.
Témiscamingue was created from parts of Pontiac.

Notes

References

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