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8th Parliament of Lower Canada
Parliament of Lower Canada 1815–1816
Parliament of Lower Canada 1815–1816
The 8th Parliament of Lower Canada was in session from January 21, 1815, to February 29, 1816. Elections to the Legislative Assembly in Lower Canada had been held in March 1814. Colonial administrator Gordon Drummond dissolved the assembly in 1816 after it attempted to reintroduce charges against judges Jonathan Sewell and James Monk who had already been cleared of the same charges by the British Privy Council. All sessions were held at Quebec City.
Members
| Riding | Member | First elected / previously elected |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford | Henry Georgen | 1814 |
| Buckinghamshire | François Bellet | 1810 |
| Buckinghamshire | James Stuart | 1809, 1814 |
| Louis Bourdages (1815) | 1804, 1815 | |
| Cornwallis | Joseph Le Vasseur Borgia | 1808 |
| Cornwallis | Joseph Robitaille | 1808 |
| Devon | Joseph-François Couillard-Després | 1814 |
| Devon | François Fournier | 1814 |
| Dorchester | John Davidson | 1814 |
| Dorchester | Jean-Thomas Taschereau | 1812 |
| Effingham | Joseph Malboeuf, dit Beausoleil | 1810 |
| Effingham | Samuel Sherwood | 1814 |
| Gaspé | George Browne | 1814 |
| Hampshire | George Waters Allsopp | 1814 |
| Hampshire | François Huot | 1796, 1808 |
| Hertford | François Blanchet | 1809 |
| Hertford | Étienne-Ferréol Roy | 1804 |
| Huntingdon | Michael O'Sullivan | 1814 |
| Huntingdon | Austin Cuvillier | 1814 |
| Kent | Noël Breux | 1814 |
| Kent | Joseph Bresse | 1814 |
| Leinster | Jacques Trullier, dit Lacombe | 1814 |
| Michel Prévost (1815) | 1815 | |
| Leinster | Denis-Benjamin Viger | 1808 |
| Montreal County | James Stuart | 1808, 1811 |
| Montreal County | Augustin Richer | 1814 |
| Montreal East | Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu | 1814 |
| Montreal East | George Platt | 1814 |
| Montreal West | Louis-Joseph Papineau | 1808 |
| Montreal West | James Fraser | 1814 |
| Northumberland | Étienne-Claude Lagueux | 1814 |
| Northumberland | Thomas Lee | 1809 |
| Orléans | Charles Blouin | 1810 |
| Quebec County | Louis Gauvreau | 1810 |
| Quebec County | Pierre Brehaut | 1814 |
| Quebec (Lower Town) | Pierre Bruneau | 1810 |
| Quebec (Lower Town) | Andrew Stuart | 1814 |
| Quebec (Upper Town) | Claude Dénéchau | 1808 |
| Quebec (Upper Town) | Jean-Antoine Panet | 1792, 1808 |
| George Vanfelson (1815) | 1815 | |
| Richelieu | Séraphin Cherrier (1815) | 1815 |
| Richelieu | François-Xavier Malhiot (1815) | 1815 |
| Saint-Maurice | Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal | 1814 |
| Saint-Maurice | Étienne Le Blanc | 1814 |
| Surrey | Pierre Amiot | 1813 |
| Surrey | Étienne Duchesnois | 1814 |
| Trois-Rivières | Charles Richard Ogden | 1814 |
| Trois-Rivières | Amable Berthelot | 1814 |
| Warwick | Jacques Deligny | 1814 |
| Warwick | Ross Cuthbert | 1800, 1812 |
| William-Henry | Robert Jones | 1814 |
| York | Nicolas-Eustache Lambert Dumont | 1814 |
| York | William Forbes | 1814 |
| Jean-Baptiste Ferré (1815) | 1815 |
Notes
References
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