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.
Sessions | Start | End |
1st | 8 November 1836 | 4 March 1837 |
2nd | 19 June 1837 | 11 July 1837 |
3rd | 28 December 1837 | 6 March 1838 |
4th | 27 February 1839 | 11 May 1839 |
5th | 3 December 1839 | 10 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.
Riding | Member |
Brockville | Henry Sherwood |
Carleton | John Bower Lewis |
Carleton | Edward Malloch |
Cornwall | George Stephen Benjamin Jarvis |
Dundas | Peter Shaver |
Dundas | John Cook |
Durham | George Strange Boulton |
Durham | George Elliott |
Essex | John Prince |
Essex | Francis Xavier Caldwell |
Frontenac | John B. Marks |
Frontenac | James Mathewson |
Glengarry | Donald Macdonell |
Glengarry | Alexander Chisholm |
Grenville | Hiram Norton |
Milo McCarger | |
Grenville | William Benjamin Wells |
Henry Burritt | |
Haldimand | William Hamilton Merritt |
Halton | William Chisholm |
Halton | Absalom Shade |
Hamilton | Colin Campbell Ferrie |
Hastings | Edmund Murney |
Hastings | Anthony Manahan |
Huron | Robert Graham Dunlop |
Kent | William McCrae |
Kent | Nathan Cornwall |
Kingston | Christopher Alexander Hagerman |
Lanark | John A.H. Powell |
Lanark | Malcolm Cameron |
Leeds | Jonas Jones |
James Morris | |
Leeds | Ogle Robert Gowan |
Lennox & Addington | John Solomon Cartwright |
Lennox & Addington | George Hill Detlor |
1st Lincoln County | Richard Woodruff |
2nd Lincoln | George Rykert |
3rd Lincoln | David Thorburn |
4th Lincoln | Gilbert McMicking |
London | Mahlon Burwell |
Middlesex | Thomas Parke |
Middlesex | Elias Moore |
Niagara | Charles Richardson |
Norfolk | David Duncombe |
Norfolk | John Rolph |
William Salmon | |
Northumberland | Alexander McDonell |
Northumberland | Henry Ruttan - Speaker 1837 |
Oxford | Robert Alway |
Oxford | Charles Duncombe |
Roger Rollo Hunter | |
Prescott | John Kearns |
Prescott | Richard Phillips Hotham |
Prince Edward | James Rogers Armstrong |
Prince Edward | Charles Bochus |
Russell | Thomas McKay |
Simcoe | William Benjamin Robinson |
Simcoe | Charles Wickens |
Stormont | Archibald McLean |
Alexander McLean | |
Stormont | Donald Aeneas MacDonell |
Toronto | William Henry Draper |
Wentworth | Allan Napier MacNab - Speaker 1837-1840 |
Wentworth | Michael Aikman |
1st York | David Gibson |
John William Gamble | |
2nd York | Edward William Thomson |
3rd York | Thomas David Morrison |
James Edward Small | |
4th York | John McIntosh |