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17th Quebec Legislature
The 17th Quebec Legislature was the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from May 16, 1927, to July 30, 1931. The Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau as Premier of Quebec had a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and was the governing party.
Seats per political party
- After the 1927 elections
| Affiliation | Members |
|---|---|
| 75 | |
| 9 | |
| Labour | 1 |
| **Total** | |
| **85** | |
| **Government Majority** | |
| **66** |
Member list
This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1927 election:
| Name | Party | Riding | First elected / previously elected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hector Authier | Liberal | Abitibi | 1923 |
| Georges-Étienne Dansereau | Liberal | Argenteuil | 1927 |
| Joseph-Édouard Perrault | Liberal | Arthabaska | 1925 |
| Joseph-Émery Phaneuf | Liberal | Bagot | 1916 |
| Joseph-Hugues Fortier | Liberal | Beauce | 1921 |
| Joseph-Édouard Fortin (1929) | Liberal | 1929 | |
| Louis-Joseph Papineau | Liberal | Beauharnois | 1927 |
| Antonin Galipeault | Liberal | Bellechasse | 1909 |
| Robert Taschereau (1930) | Liberal | 1930 | |
| Cléophas Bastien | Liberal | Berthier | 1927 |
| Pierre-Émile Côté | Liberal | Bonaventure | 1924 |
| Carlton James Oliver | Liberal | Brome | 1923 |
| Alexandre Thurber | Liberal | Chambly | 1923 |
| William-Pierre Grant | Liberal | Champlain | 1925 |
| Edgar Rochette | Liberal | Charlevoix et Saguenay | 1927 |
| Honoré Mercier Jr. | Liberal | Châteauguay | 1907, 1908 |
| Gustave Delisle | Liberal | Chicoutimi | 1923 |
| Jacob Nicol | Liberal | Compton | 1921 |
| Andrew Ross McMaster (1929) | Liberal | 1929 | |
| Arthur Sauvé | Conservative | Deux-Montagnes | 1908 |
| Paul Sauvé (1930) | Conservative | 1930 | |
| Ernest Ouellet | Liberal | Dorchester | 1917 |
| Hector Laferté | Liberal | Drummond | 1916 |
| Cyrille Baillargeon | Liberal | Frontenac | 1923 |
| Gustave Lemieux | Liberal | Gaspé | 1912 |
| Aimé Guertin | Conservative | Hull | 1927 |
| Andrew Philps | Liberal | Huntingdon | 1913 |
| Martin Bettie Fisher (1930) | Conservative | 1930 | |
| Lucien Lamoureux | Liberal | Iberville | 1923 |
| Joseph-Édouard Caron | Liberal | Îles-de-la-Madeleine | 1902 |
| Amédée Caron (1928) | Liberal | 1928 | |
| Victor Marchand | Liberal | Jacques-Cartier | 1925 |
| Lucien Dugas | Liberal | Joliette | 1927 |
| Nérée Morin | Liberal | Kamouraska | 1920 |
| Pierre Gagnon (1927) | Liberal | 1927 | |
| Pierre Lortie | Liberal | Labelle | 1923 |
| Émile Moreau | Liberal | Lac-Saint-Jean | 1919 |
| Walter Reed | Liberal | L'Assomption | 1908 |
| Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr. | Conservative | Laval | 1919 |
| Alfred-Valère Roy | Liberal | Lévis | 1916 |
| Élisée Thériault | Liberal | L'Islet | 1916 |
| Adélard Godbout (1929) | Liberal | 1929 | |
| Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur | Liberal | Lotbinière | 1908 |
| William Tremblay | Labour | Maisonneuve | 1927 |
| Joseph-William Gagnon | Liberal | Maskinongé | 1927 |
| Louis-Joseph Thisdel (1930) | Liberal | 1930 | |
| Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal | Matane | 1923 |
| Joseph Dufour | Liberal | Matapédia | 1919 |
| Lauréat Lapierre | Liberal | Mégantic | 1916 |
| Alexandre Saurette | Liberal | Missisquoi | 1919 |
| Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel | Liberal | Montcalm | 1917 |
| Joseph-Léonide Perron (1929) | Liberal | 1910, 1912, 1929 | |
| Charles-Abraham Paquet | Liberal | Montmagny | 1919 |
| Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | Liberal | Montmorency | 1900 |
| Aldéric Blain | Conservative | Montréal-Dorion | 1927 |
| Ernest Poulin | Liberal | Montréal-Laurier | 1919, 1927 |
| Anatole Plante | Liberal | Montréal-Mercier | 1927 |
| Joseph Henry Dillon | Liberal | Montréal–Sainte-Anne | 1924 |
| Joseph Gauthier | Liberal | Montréal–Sainte-Marie | 1921, 1927 |
| Camillien Houde (1928) | Conservative | 1923, 1928 | |
| Charles Ernest Gault | Conservative | Montréal–Saint-Georges | 1907 |
| Alfred Leduc | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Henri | 1927 |
| Irénée Vautrin | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Jacques | 1919, 1927 |
| Joseph Cohen | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Laurent | 1927 |
| Peter Bercovitch | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Louis | 1916 |
| Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | Conservative | Montréal-Verdun | 1923 |
| Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau | Liberal | Napierville-Laprairie | 1923 |
| Joseph-Alcide Savoie | Liberal | Nicolet | 1923 |
| Désiré Lahaie | Liberal | Papineau | 1922 |
| Wallace McDonald | Liberal | Pontiac | 1919 |
| Édouard Hamel | Liberal | Portneuf | 1920 |
| Pierre Gauthier (1927) | Liberal | 1927 | |
| Joseph-Ephraim Bédard | Liberal | Québec-Comté | 1927 |
| Joseph Samson | Liberal | Québec-Centre | 1927 |
| Louis-Alfred Létourneau | Liberal | Québec-Est | 1908 |
| Oscar Drouin (1928) | Liberal | 1928 | |
| Joseph Ignatius Power | Liberal | Québec-Ouest | 1927 |
| Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière | Liberal | Richelieu | 1923 |
| Avila Turcotte (1929) | Liberal | 1929 | |
| Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais | Liberal | Richmond | 1923 |
| Louis-Joseph Moreault | Liberal | Rimouski | 1923 |
| Cyril-Améric Bernard | Liberal | Rouville | 1923 |
| Télesphore-Damien Bouchard | Liberal | Saint-Hyacinthe | 1912, 1923 |
| Alexis Bouthillier | Liberal | Saint-Jean | 1919 |
| Joseph-Auguste Frigon | Liberal | Saint-Maurice | 1927 |
| Charles-Édouard Cantin | Liberal | Saint-Sauveur | 1927 |
| William Stephen Bullock | Liberal | Shefford | 1912 |
| Armand-Charles Crépeau | Conservative | Sherbrooke | 1924 |
| Avila Ferland | Liberal | Soulanges | 1916, 1927 |
| Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet | Liberal | Stanstead | 1913 |
| Joseph-Édouard Piché | Liberal | Témiscamingue | 1927 |
| Léon Casgrain | Liberal | Témiscouata | 1927 |
| Athanase David | Liberal | Terrebonne | 1916 |
| Maurice Duplessis | Conservative | Trois-Rivières | 1927 |
| Hormisdas Pilon | Liberal | Vaudreuil | 1901 |
| Félix Messier | Liberal | Verchères | 1927 |
| Charles Allan Smart | Conservative | Westmount | 1912 |
| Cyrénus Lemieux | Liberal | Wolfe | 1921 |
| David Lapperrière | Liberal | Yamaska | 1923 |
Other elected MLAs
Other MLAs were elected during by-elections in this term
- Pierre Gagnon, Liberal Party, Kamouraska, October 31, 1927
- Pierre Gauthier, Liberal Party, Portneuf, October 31, 1927
- Amédée Caron, Liberal Party, Iles-de-la-Madeleine, July 14, 1928
- Oscar Drouin, Liberal Party, Québec-Est, October 24, 1928
- Camillien Houde, Conservative Party, Montréal-Sainte-Marie, October 24, 1928
- Adélard Godbout, Liberal Party, L'Islet, May 13, 1929
- Andrew Ross McMaster, Liberal Party, Compton, September 30, 1929
- Avila Turcotte, Liberal Party, Richelieu, October 28, 1929
- Joseph-Léonide Perron, Liberal Party, Montcalm, November 16, 1929
- Joseph-Édouard Fortin, Liberal Party, Beauce, December 9, 1929
- Robert Taschereau, Liberal Party, Bellechasse, October 20, 1930
- Paul Sauvé, Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, November 4, 1930
- Martin Beattie Fisher, Conservative Party, Huntingdon, November 4, 1930
- Louis-Joseph Thisdel, Liberal Party, Maskinongé, November 4, 1930
Cabinet Ministers
- Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1927-1929), Joseph-Léonide Perron (1929-1930), Adélard Godbout (1930-1931)
- Colonization, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1927-1929), Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Colonization, Hunting and Fishing: Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Mines: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1930-1931)
- Public Works and Labour: Antonin Galipeault (1927-1930), Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1930-1931)
- Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
- Roads: Joseph-Léonide Perron (1927-1929), Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1929-1931)
- Municipal Affairs: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Provincial secretary: Athanase David
- Treasurer: Jacob Nicol (1927-1929), Andrew Ross McMaster (1929-1930), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1930-1931)
- Members without portfolios: Joseph-Charles-Ernest Ouellet (1929-1931), Narcisse Pérodeau (1929-1931), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930-1931)
New electoral districts
The electoral map was reformed in 1930 and the new map was first used in the general election of August 24, 1931.
- Gaspé was split into two ridings: Gaspé-Nord and Gaspé-Sud.
- Gatineau was created from parts of Hull.
- Laviolette was created from parts of Champlain.
- Roberval was created from parts of Lac-Saint-Jean
- Rivière-du-Loup was created from parts of Témiscouata.
Notes
References
References
- Elected as Independent Liberal
- "Élections dans Kamouraska".
- "Élections dans Portneuf".
- "Élections dans Îles-de-la-Madeleine".
- "Élections dans Jean-Lesage".
- "Élections dans Sainte-Marie".
- "Élections dans L'Islet".
- "Élections dans Compton".
- "Élections dans Richelieu".
- "Élections dans Montcalm".
- "Élections dans Beauce-Sud".
- "Élections dans Bellechasse".
- "Élections dans Deux-Montagnes".
- "Élections dans Huntingdon".
- "Élections dans Maskinongé".
- "Carte électorale 1930".
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