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7th Parliament of the Province of Canada

British colonial legislature from 1861 to 1863

The 7th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in July 1861, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in June 1861. It first met on July 15, 1861, and was dissolved in May 1863.

This was the first election in the Province of Canada to use a list of eligible voters prepared before the election. All sessions were held in Quebec City. The 7th Parliament ended following a vote of no confidence on May 8, 1863.

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was Joseph-Édouard Turcotte.

Members

Canada East – 65 Seats

Riding	Member	Party	First elected/previously elected
Argenteuil	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott	Liberal	1860
Bagot	Maurice Laframboise	Rouge	1858
Beauce	Henri-Elzéar Taschereau	Bleu	1861
Beauharnois	Paul Denis	Bleu	1861
Bellechasse	Édouard Rémillard	Rouge	1861
Berthier	Pierre-Eustache Dostaler		1854, 1861
Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Bleu	1861
Brome	Moses Sweet		1861
Christopher Dunkin (1862)	Conservative	1858, 1862
Chambly	Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville	Bleu	1861
Champlain	John Jones Ross	Bleu	1861
Charlevoix	Adolphe Gagnon	Rouge	1861
Châteauguay	Henry Starnes	Conservative	1858
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	David Edward Price	Conservative	1855
Compton	John Henry Pope	Conservative	1858
Deux-Montagnes	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Reformer	1854
Dorchester	Hector-Louis Langevin	Bleu	1858
Drummond—Arthabaska	Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion	Rouge	1854, 1861
Gaspé	John Le Boutillier	Bleu	1844, 1854
Hochelaga	Paschal Falkner	Rouge	1861
Antoine-Aimé Dorion (1862)	Rouge	1854, 1862
Huntingdon	Robert Brown Somerville	Independent	1854
Iberville	Alexandre Dufresne	Rouge	1861
Jacques-Cartier	François-Zéphirin Tassé	Bleu	1858
Joliette	Joseph-Hilarion Jobin	Rouge	1851
Kamouraska	Jean-Charles Chapais	Bleu	1851
Laprairie	Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger	Independent	1858
Alfred Pinsonneault (1863)	Bleu	1863
L'Assomption	Alexandre Archambault	Rouge	1858
Laval	Pierre Labelle	Bleu	1854
Louis-Siméon Morin (1861)	Bleu	1861
Lévis	Joseph-Godric Blanchet	Bleu	1861
L'Islet	Charles-François Fournier	Bleu	1848, 1858
Lotbinière	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Rouge	1861
Maskinongé	George Caron	Bleu	1858
Mégantic	Noël Hébert	Rouge	1858
Missisquoi	James O'Halloran	Rouge	1861
Montcalm	Jean-Louis Martin		1861
Joseph Dufresne (1862)	Bleu	1854, 1862
Montmagny	Joseph-Octave Beaubien	Bleu	1858
Montmorency	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Bleu	1844
Montreal Centre	John Rose	Conservative	1858
Montreal East	George-Étienne Cartier	Bleu	1848
Montreal West	Thomas D'Arcy McGee	Rouge	1858
Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Bleu	1858
Napierville	Jacques-Olivier Bureau	Rouge	1854
Pierre Benoit (1862)	Route	1862
Ottawa County	William McDonell Dawson	Conservative	1861
Pontiac	John Poupore	Bleu	1861
Portneuf	Jean-Docile Brousseau	Liberal-Conservative	1861
Quebec County	François Évanturel	Liberal	1861
Quebec-Centre	Georges-Honoré Simard	Bleu	1856
Quebec West	Charles Joseph Alleyn	Conservative	1858
Quebec East	Pierre-Gabriel Huot	Rouge	1854, 1860
Richelieu	Joseph Beaudreau	Bleu	1861
Richmond—Wolfe	Charles de Cazes	Independent	1861
Rimouski	George Sylvain	Liberal	1861
Rouville	Lewis Thomas Drummond	Rouge	1844, 1861
St. Hyacinthe	Louis-Victor Sicotte	Bleu	1851
Saint-Jean	François Bourassa	Rouge	1854
Saint-Maurice	Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers	Bleu	1854
Shefford	Lucius Seth Huntington	Rouge	1861
Sherbrooke	Alexander Tilloch Galt	Liberal-Conservative	1849, 1853
Soulanges	Jean-Baptiste-Jules Prévost	Moderate	1861
Stanstead	Albert Knight	Conservative	1861
Témiscouata	Michel-Guillaume Baby	Bleu	1861
Terrebonne	Louis Labrèche-Viger	Rouge	1861
Trois-Rivières	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	Bleu	1841, 1851
Vaudreuil	Jean-Baptiste Mongenais	Bleu	1848, 1860
Verchères	Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski	Rouge	1861
Charles-François Painchaud (1863)		1863
Yamaska	Moïse Fortier	Rouge	1861

Canada West – 65 Seats

Riding	Member	Party	First elected/previously elected
East Brant	John Young Bown	Reformer	1861
West Brant	William Ryerson	Independent	1861
Brockville	George Sherwood	Conservative	1858
Carleton	William F. Powell	Conservative	1854
Cornwall	John Sandfield Macdonald	Reformer	1841
Dundas	John Sylvester Ross	Conservative	1861
East Durham	John Shuter Smith	Reformer	1861
West Durham	Henry Munro	Reformer	1854
East Elgin	Leonidas Burwell	Reformer	1858
West Elgin	George Macbeth	Conservative	1854
John Scoble (1863)	Reformer	1863
Essex	Arthur Rankin	Reformer	1854, 1861
John O'Connor (1863)	Conservative	1863
Frontenac	James Morton	Conservative	1861
Glengarry	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Reformer	1858
Grenville	William Patrick	Reformer	1851
Grey	George Jackson	Conservative	1861
Haldimand	Michael Harcourt	Reformer	1858
Halton	John White	Reformer	1858
Hamilton	Isaac Buchanan	Independent	1858
North Hastings	George Benjamin	Conservative	1856
South Hastings	Lewis Wallbridge	Reformer	1858
Huron & Bruce	James Dickson	Reformer	1861
Kent	Archibald McKellar	Reformer	1858
Kingston	John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1844
Lambton	Alexander Mackenzie	Reformer	1861
North Lanark	Robert Bell	Reform	1854
South Lanark	Alexander Morris	Conservative	1861
North Leeds & Grenville	Francis Jones	Conservative	1861
South Leeds	Benjamin Tett	Conservative	1858
Lennox and Addington	Augustus Frederick Garland Hooper	Conservative	1861
Lincoln	John Charles Rykert	Liberal-Conservative	1860
London	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	1858
East Middlesex	Maurice Berkeley Portman	Conservative	1861
West Middlesex	Thomas Scatcherd	Reformer	1854, 1861
Niagara (town)	John Simpson	Conservative	1858
Norfolk	Aquila Walsh	Conservative	1861
East Northumberland	James Lyons Biggar	Reformer	1861
West Northumberland	James Cockburn	Conservative	1861
North Ontario	Matthew Crooks Cameron	Conservative	1861
South Ontario	Oliver Mowat	Reformer	1858
Ottawa	Richard William Scott	Liberal-Conservative	1858
North Oxford	William McDougall	Reformer	1858
South Oxford	George Skeffington Connor	Reformer	1858
George Brown (1863)	Reformer	1851, 1863
Peel	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative	1854
Perth	Michael Hamilton Foley	Reformer	1854
Thomas Mayne Daly (1862)	Liberal-Conservative	1854, 1862
Peterborough	Frederick W. Haultain	Conservative	1861
Prescott	Henry Wellesly McCann	Conservative	1854
Prince Edward	William Anderson	Conservative	1861
Renfrew	Daniel McLachlin	Liberal-Conservative	1851, 1861
Russell	Robert Bell	Conservative	1861
North Simcoe	Angus Morrison	Reformer	1854
South Simcoe	Thomas Roberts Ferguson	Conservative	1858
Stormont	Samuel Ault	Reformer	1861
East Toronto	John Willoughby Crawford	Conservative	1861
West Toronto	John Beverley Robinson	Conservative	1858
Victoria	James W Dunsford	Liberal-Conservative	1861
North Waterloo	Michael Hamilton Foley	Reform	1854
South Waterloo	James Cowan	Reform	1861
Welland	Thomas Clark Street	Conservative	1861
North Wellington	William Clarke	Conservative	1854, 1861
South Wellington	David Stirton	Reformer	1858
North Wentworth	William Notman	Reformer	1848, 1858
South Wentworth	Joseph Rymal	Reformer	1858
East York	Amos Wright	Reformer	1851
North York	Adam Wilson	Reformer	1860
West York	William Pearce Howland	Reformer	1858

Notes

References

;Bibliography

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

References

["Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada ... : Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from February 12 to May 12, 1863 ... in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of ... Queen Victoria : being the 2nd session of the 7th Provincial Parliament of Canada".

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