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3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada

British colonial legislature from 1848 to 1851

British colonial legislature from 1848 to 1851

The 3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in 1848, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in January 1848. The first session was held at Montreal, Canada East. In 1849, rioters protesting the Rebellion Losses Bill burned the parliament buildings. After briefly sitting at Bonsecours Market and Freemason’s Hall, the remaining sessions were held in Toronto. The Parliament was dissolved on November 6, 1851.

During the 1849 session of this parliament, a number of important bills were passed:

  • the Act to provide for the Indemnification of Parties in Lower Canada whose Property was destroyed during the Rebellion in the years 1837 and 1838http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?display=63803+0009 (Rebellion Losses Bill)
  • the Baldwin Act, also known as the Municipal Corporations Act, which replaced the local government system based on district councils in Canada West by government at the county level. It also granted more autonomy to townships, villages, towns and cities.
  • the Amnesty Act which offered pardons to all those involved in the Rebellions of 1837–8.

In 1850, legislation was passed to regulate the operation of the postal service and to establish a post on the Executive Council for the Postmaster General for the Province of Canada.

The Speaker of this parliament was Augustin Norbert Morin.

Members

Canada East - 42 seats

RidingMemberPartyFirst elected/previously elected
BeauharnoisJacob De WittReformer1842
BellechasseAugustin-Norbert MorinPatriote1841
BerthierDavid Morrison ArmstrongPatriote1841
BonaventureWilliam CuthbertTory1848
ChamblyPierre BeaubienPatriote1848
Louis Lacoste (1849)Reformer1843, 1849
ChamplainLouis GuilletPatriote1844
Deux-MontagnesWilliam Henry ScottReformer1844
DorchesterFrançois-Xavier LemieuxPatriote1847
DrummondRobert Nugent WattsConservative1841
GaspéRobert ChristieIndependent1841
HuntingdonTancrède SauvageauPatriote1848
KamouraskaPierre CanacPatriote1848
Luc Letellier de St-Just (1851)Liberal1851
LeinsterNorbert DumasPatriote1848
L'IsletCharles-François FournierPatriote1848
LotbinièreJoseph LaurinPatriote1844
MéganticDominick DalyConservative1841
Dunbar Ross (1850)Reformer1850
MissisquoiWilliam BadgleyConservative1847
MontmorencyJoseph-Édouard CauchonPatriote1844
MontrealBenjamin HolmesReformer1848
MontrealLouis-Hippolyte LafontaineReformer1841
Montreal CountyAndré JobinReformer1843
NicoletThomas FortierPatriote1848
OttawaJohn EganReformer1848
PortneufÉdouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau DuchesnayReformer1848
Quebec CountyPierre-Joseph-Olivier ChauveauReformer1844
Quebec CityThomas Cushing AylwinPatriote1844
François-Xavier Méthot (1848)Patriote1848
Quebec CityJean ChabotConservative1843
RichelieuWolfred NelsonPatriote1844
RimouskiJoseph-Charles TachéPatriote1848
RouvillePierre DavignonPatriote1848
SaguenayMarc-Pascal de Sales LaterrièrePatriote1845
St. HyacintheThomas BoutillierReformer1841
Saint-MauriceLouis-Joseph PapineauPatriote1848
SheffordLewis Thomas DrummondConservative1844
SherbrookeBartholomew Conrad Augustus GugyConservative1848
Sherbrooke CountySamuel BrooksConservative1844
Alexander Tilloch Galt (1849)Independent1849
John Sewell Sanborn (1850)Liberal1850
StansteadJohn McConnellConservative1844
TerrebonneLouis-Michel VigerPatriote1842, 1848
Trois-RivièresAntoine Polette (1848)Reformer1848
VaudreuilJean-Baptiste MongenaisPatriote1848
VerchèresJames LesliePatriote1841
George-Étienne Cartier (1848)Reformer1848
YamaskaMichel FourquinReformer1848

Canada West - 42 seats

RidingMemberPartyFirst elected/previously elected
BrockvilleGeorge Sherwood1841
BytownJohn ScottConservative1848
CarletonEdward Malloch1848
CornwallJohn Hillyard CameronConservative1846
DundasJohn Pliny Crysler1848
DurhamJames Smith1848
EssexJohn Prince1841
FrontenacHenry Smith, JrConservative1841
GlengarryJohn Sandfield MacdonaldReformer1841
GrenvilleReed Burritt1848
HaldimandDavid ThompsonReformer1841
William Lyon Mackenzie (1851)Reformer1851
East HaltonJohn WetenhallReformer1848
Caleb Hopkins (1850)Clear Grit1850
HamiltonAllan Napier MacNabConservative1841
HastingsBilla FlintReformer1848
HuronWilliam CayleyConservative1846
KentMalcolm CameronReformer1841
KingstonJohn A. MacdonaldConservative1844
LanarkRobert BellReformer1848
LeedsWilliam Buell RichardsReformer1848
Lennox & AddingtonBenjamin SeymourConservative1844
LincolnWilliam Hamilton MerrittReformer1844
LondonJohn WilsonConservative1848
MiddlesexWilliam NotmanReformer1848
Niagara (town)Walter Hamilton Dickson1844
NorfolkHenry John BoultonReformer1842, 1848
NorthumberlandAdam H Meyers1844
OxfordFrancis HincksReformer1841, 1848
PeterboroughJames Hall1848
PrescottThomas H Johnston1848
Prince EdwardDavid Barker StevensonConservative1848
RussellGeorge Byron Lyon-Fellowes1848
SimcoeWilliam Benjamin RobinsonConservative1844
StormontAlexander McLean1848
TorontoWilliam Henry BoultonConservative1844
TorontoHenry SherwoodConservative1843
WaterlooJames WebsterConservative1844
Adam Johnston Fergusson (1849)Reformer1849
WellandDuncan McFarland1848
WentworthHarmannus Smith1841
East YorkWilliam Hume BlakeReformer1848
Peter Perry (1850)Clear Grit1848
North YorkRobert BaldwinReformer1841
South YorkJames Hervey PriceReformer1841
West YorkJoseph Curran MorrisonReformer1848

Notes

References

;Bibliography

  • Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)

References

  1. resigned to accept a position; Louis Lacose was elected in a by-election in September 1849.
  2. died in 1850; Luc Letellier de Saint-Just was elected to the seat in February 1851.
  3. seat was declared vacant in 1849 after Daly was named to a commission of inquiry in England; Dunbar Ross was elected in a by-election held in March 1850.
  4. resigned his seat in 1848 to accept an appointment as judge; François-Xavier Méthot was elected in a by-election held in June 1848.
  5. died in March 1849; Alexander Tilloch Galt took the seat in April 1849.
  6. resigned in January 1850; John Sewell Sanborn was elected to the seat in March 1850.
  7. The general election in Trois-Rivières was not completed and Antoine Polette was elected in a by-election in April 1848.
  8. accepted an appointment; George-Étienne Cartier was elected to the seat in April 1848.
  9. died in 1851; William Lyon Mackenzie was elected in an April 1851 by-election.
  10. was required to seek reelection after being appointed to cabinet; Caleb Hopkins won his seat in a March 1850 by-election.
  11. formerly West Halton
  12. unseated on appeal; Adam Johnston Fergusson took the seat in February 1849.
  13. formerly South Lincoln
  14. formerly 3rd York
  15. resigned in 1849; Peter Perry was elected in a by-election.
  16. formerly 4th York
  17. formerly 1st York
  18. formerly 2nd York
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