4th Parliament of the Province of Canada

The 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in December 1851, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in October 1851. Sessions were held in Quebec City. The Parliament was dissolved in June 1854.

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was John Sandfield Macdonald.

Members

Canada East – 42 seats

Riding Member Party First elected/previously elected
Beauharnois Ovide Le Blanc Reformer 1851
Bellechasse Jean Chabot Reformer 1843
Berthier Joseph-Hilarion Jobin Patriote 1851
Bonaventure David Le Boutillier Reformer 1851
Chambly Louis Lacoste Reformer 1843,[a] 1849
Champlain Thomas Marchildon Liberal 1851
Deux-Montagnes William Henry Scott[b] Reformer 1844
Louis-Joseph Papineau (1852) Rouge 1848,[c] 1852
Dorchester François-Xavier Lemieux Reformer 1847
Drummond John McDougall Conservative 1851
Gaspé Robert Christie Independent 1841
Huntingdon Jean-Baptiste Varin Reformer 1851
Kamouraska Jean-Charles Chapais Reformer 1851
Leinster Louis-Michel Viger Reformer 1842,[d] 1848
L'Islet Charles-François Fournier Reformer 1848
Lotbinière Joseph Laurin Reformer 1844
Mégantic John Greaves Clapham Tory 1851
Missisquoi Seneca Paige Moderate 1851
Montmorency Joseph-Édouard Cauchon Reformer 1844
Montreal John Young Rouge 1851
William Badgley Tory 1847
Montreal County Michel-François Valois Rouge 1851
Nicolet Thomas Fortier Reformer 1848
Ottawa John Egan Reformer 1848
Portneuf Ulric-Joseph Tessier Reformer 1851
Quebec County Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau Reformer 1844
Quebec City Hippolyte Dubord Independent 1851
George Okill Stuart Conservative 1851
Richelieu Antoine-Némèse Gouin Reformer 1851
Rimouski Joseph-Charles Taché Reformer 1848
Rouville Joseph-Napoléon Poulin Reformer 1851
Saguenay Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière Reformer 1845
St. Hyacinthe Louis-Victor Sicotte Liberal 1851
Saint-Maurice Joseph-Édouard Turcotte Reformer 1841, 1851
Shefford Lewis Thomas Drummond Liberal 1844
Sherbrooke Edward Short[e] Moderate 1851
Alexander Tilloch Galt (1853) Independent 1849, 1853
Sherbrooke (county) John Sewell Sanborn Liberal 1850
Stanstead Hazard Bailey Terrill[f] Moderate 1851
Timothy Lee Terrill (1852) Moderate 1852
Terrebonne Augustin-Norbert Morin Reformer 1841[g] 1851
Trois-Rivières Antoine Polette Reformer 1848
Vaudreuil Jean-Baptiste Mongenais Reformer 1848
Verchères George-Étienne Cartier Reformer 1848
Yamaska Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin Reformer 1851

Canada West – 42 seats

Riding Member Party First elected/previously elected
Brockville George Crawford Conservative 1841
Bytown Daniel McLachlin Reformer 1851
Carleton Edward Malloch 1848
Cornwall Roderick McDonald 1851
Dundas Jesse W. Rose 1851
Durham James Smith 1848
Essex John Prince 1841
Frontenac Henry Smith, Jr Conservative 1841
Glengarry John Sandfield Macdonald Reformer 1841
Grenville William Patrick Reformer 1851
Haldimand William Lyon Mackenzie Reformer 1851
Halton John White 1851
Hamilton Allan Napier MacNab Conservative 1841
Hastings Edmund Murney 1851
Huron Malcolm Cameron Reformer 1841
Kent George Brown Reformer 1851
Kingston John A. Macdonald Conservative 1844
Lanark James Shaw Conservative 1851
Leeds William Buell Richards[h] Reformer 1848
Jesse Delong (1853) Reformer 1853
Lennox and Addington Benjamin Seymour Conservative 1844
Lincoln William Hamilton Merritt Reformer 1844
London Thomas C. Dixon Conservative 1851
Middlesex Crowell Willson 1851
Niagara (town) Francis Hincks[i] Reformer 1851
Joseph Curran Morrison (1852) Reformer 1852
Norfolk John Rolph Clear Grit 1851
Northumberland Asa A Burnham 1851
Oxford Francis Hincks Reformer 1841, 1848
Peterborough John Langton Conservative 1851
Prescott Thomas Hall Johnston 1848
Prince Edward David Barker Stevenson Conservative 1848
Russell George Byron Lyon-Fellowes 1848
Simcoe William Benjamin Robinson Conservative 1844
Stormont William Mattice 1851
Toronto George Percival Ridout Independent
Conservative 		1851
William Henry Boulton[j] Conservative 1844, 1853
Henry Sherwood (1853) Conservative 1843, 1853
Waterloo Adam Johnston Fergusson Reform 1849
Welland Thomas Clark Street Conservative 1851
Wentworth David Christie Reformer 1851
East York Amos Wright Reformer 1851
North York Joseph Hartman Reformer 1851
South York John William Gamble Tory 1851
West York George Wright Reformer 1851

Notes

  1. ^ Montreal
  2. ^ died in 1851; Louis-Joseph Papineau was elected in a by-election held in July 1852.
  3. ^ Saint-Maurice
  4. ^ Nicolet
  5. ^ resigned to accept an appointment in November 1852; Alexander Tilloch Galt was elected in a by-election held in March 1853.
  6. ^ died in 1852; his brother, Timothy Lee Terrill, was elected to his seat in a by-election held in November 1852.
  7. ^ Nicolet/Saguenay
  8. ^ named judge in June 1853; Jesse Delong elected in a July 1853 by-election.
  9. ^ Francis Hincks was elected in both Niagara and Oxford, choosing to sit for Oxford; Joseph Curran Morrison was elected in an 1852 by-election for Niagara.
  10. ^ election declared void in March 1853; Henry Sherwood elected in an April 1853 by-election

References

Bibliography
  • Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)
  • Côté, George Oliver (1860). Political appointments and elections in the province of Canada. 1841 to 1860. St. Michael & Darveau.
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