13th Parliament of Upper Canada


The 13th Parliament of Upper Canada was opened 8 November 1836. Elections in Upper Canada had been held 20 June 1836. All sessions were held at Toronto.
The House of Assembly had five sessions 8 November 1836 to 10 February 1840.
Both the House and Parliament sat at the third Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada.
SessionsStartEnd
1st8 November 18364 March 1837
2nd19 June 183711 July 1837
3rd28 December 18376 March 1838
4th27 February 183911 May 1839
5th3 December 183910 February 1840

In the election campaign of June 1836, the Lieutenant Governor Sir Francis Bond Head appealed to the United Empire Loyalists of the colony, proclaiming that the reformers were advocating American republicanism. The Conservative party, led by the wealthy landowners known as the "Family Compact", won the election resulting in a conservative majority in the legislative assembly and triggering dissent in the province. This was the last parliament for Upper Canada. This parliament was dissolved 10 February 1840. The Act of Union 1840 abolished the legislative assemblies for Upper and Lower Canada and created a new Province of Canada with a common Legislative Assembly. This came as a result of the Rebellions of 1837.
RidingMember
BrockvilleHenry Sherwood
CarletonJohn Bower Lewis
CarletonEdward Malloch
CornwallGeorge Stephen Benjamin Jarvis
DundasPeter Shaver
DundasJohn Cook
DurhamGeorge Strange Boulton
DurhamGeorge Elliott
EssexJohn Prince
EssexFrancis Xavier Caldwell
FrontenacJohn B. Marks
FrontenacJames Mathewson
GlengarryDonald Macdonell
GlengarryAlexander Chisholm
GrenvilleHiram Norton
Milo McCarger
GrenvilleWilliam Benjamin Wells
Henry Burritt
HaldimandWilliam Hamilton Merritt
HaltonWilliam Chisholm
HaltonAbsalom Shade
HamiltonColin Campbell Ferrie
HastingsEdmund Murney
HastingsAnthony Manahan
HuronRobert Graham Dunlop
KentWilliam McCrae
KentNathan Cornwall
KingstonChristopher Alexander Hagerman
LanarkJohn A.H. Powell
LanarkMalcolm Cameron
LeedsJonas Jones
James Morris
LeedsOgle Robert Gowan
Lennox & AddingtonJohn Solomon Cartwright
Lennox & AddingtonGeorge Hill Detlor
1st Lincoln CountyRichard Woodruff
2nd LincolnGeorge Rykert
3rd LincolnDavid Thorburn
4th LincolnGilbert McMicking
LondonMahlon Burwell
MiddlesexThomas Parke
MiddlesexElias Moore
Niagara Charles Richardson
NorfolkDavid Duncombe
NorfolkJohn Rolph
William Salmon
NorthumberlandAlexander McDonell
NorthumberlandHenry Ruttan - Speaker 1837
OxfordRobert Alway
OxfordCharles Duncombe
Roger Rollo Hunter
PrescottJohn Kearns
PrescottRichard Phillips Hotham
Prince EdwardJames Rogers Armstrong
Prince EdwardCharles Bochus
RussellThomas McKay
SimcoeWilliam Benjamin Robinson
SimcoeCharles Wickens
StormontArchibald McLean
Alexander McLean
StormontDonald Aeneas MacDonell
TorontoWilliam Henry Draper
WentworthAllan Napier MacNab - Speaker 1837-1840
WentworthMichael Aikman
1st YorkDavid Gibson
John William Gamble
2nd YorkEdward William Thomson
3rd YorkThomas David Morrison
James Edward Small
4th YorkJohn McIntosh