17th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 17th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1843 and 1847.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, Lucius Bentinck Cary. Jeremiah Dickson became governor in 1846.

William Young was chosen as speaker for the house.

List of members

Electoral District Name First elected / previously elected
Township of Amherst Thomas Logan 1843
Annapolis County James W. Johnston 1843
Township of Annapolis Alfred Whitman 1843
Township of Argyle John Ryder 1840
Township of Arichat Henry Martell 1840
Township of Barrington Paul Crowell 1843
County of Cape Breton James Boyle Uniacke 1818
Township of Clare Anselme F. Comeau 1840
Colchester County John Ross 1843
Township of Cornwallis Mayhew Beckwith 1840
Cumberland County Stephen Fulton 1840
Robert McGowan Dickie 1843
Digby County François Bourneuf 1843
Township of Digby Charles Budd 1840
Township of Falmouth Elkanah Young 1843
Township of Granville Stephen S. Thorne 1836
Guysborough County William F. DesBarres 1836
John J. Marshall 1840
Halifax County Joseph Howe 1836
Laurence O'Connor Doyle 1843
Township of Halifax James McNab 1840
Andrew M. Uniacke 1843
Hants County Benjamin Smith 1836
Lewis Morris Wilkins 1833,[a] 1843
Township of Horton Perez M. Benjamin 1843
Inverness County William Young 1840
James McKeagney 1843
Kings County Thomas Andrew Strange DeWolf 1836
John Clarke Hall 1843
Township of Liverpool William B. Taylor 1836
Township of Londonderry Gloud W. McLelan 1836
Lunenburg County John Creighton 1830, 1838
Charles B. Owen 1843
Township of Lunenburg John Heckman 1826
Township of Newport Ichabod Dimock 1840
Town of Onslow John Crowe 1835, 1841
Pictou County John Holmes 1836
George R. Young 1843
Township of Pictou George Smith[b] 1819,[c] 1843
Henry Blackadar (1845) 1840, 1845
Queens County Samuel P. Fairbanks 1836
Snow P. Freeman 1843
John Campbell (1845) 1845
Richmond County James Turnbull 1843
Arthur Brymer (1846) 1846
Shelburne County Obadiah Wilson 1843
Township of Shelburne Peter Spearwater, Jr. 1836
Sydney County George Brenan 1843
Patrick Power 1843
Township of Sydney Edmund Murray Dodd 1832
Town of Truro William Fleming 1843
Township of Windsor James D. Fraser 1843
Yarmouth County Herbert Huntington 1836
Township of Yarmouth Reuben Clements 1830, 1835

Notes

  1. ^ Windsor Township
  2. ^ election appealed
  3. ^ Halifax County

References