3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada
The 3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1848 to 1851. Elections for the Legislative Assembly were held in the Province of Canada in January 1848. The first session was held at Montreal, Canada East. In 1849, rioters protesting the Rebellion Losses Bill burned the parliament buildings. The remaining sessions were held in Toronto.
During the 1849 session of this parliament, a number of important bills were passed:
- the Act to provide for the Indemnification of Parties in Lower Canada whose Property was destroyed during the Rebellion in the years 1837 and 1838
- the Baldwin Act, also known as the Municipal Corporations Act, which replaced the local government system based on district councils in Canada West by government at the county level. It also granted more autonomy to townships, villages, towns and cities.
- the Amnesty Act which offered pardons to all those involved in the Rebellions of 1837-8.
Seats in the Canada East remained at 41, but Canada West increased by 1 to 43.
The Speaker of this parliament was Augustin Norbert Morin.
Canada East
Riding | Member | Party |
Beauharnois | Jacob De Witt | Reformer |
Bellechasse | Augustin-Norbert Morin | Patriote |
Berthier | David Morrison Armstrong | Patriote |
Bonaventure | William Cuthbert | Tory |
Chambly | Pierre Beaubien | Patriote |
Louis Lacoste | Reformer | |
Champlain | Louis Guillet | Patriote |
Deux-Montagnes | William Henry Scott | Reformer |
Dorchester | François-Xavier Lemieux | Patriote |
Drummond | Robert Nugent Watts | Conservative |
Gaspé | Robert Christie | Independent |
Huntingdon | Tancrède Sauvageau | Patriote |
Kamouraska | Pierre Canac | Patriote |
Luc Letellier de St-Just | Liberal | |
Leinster | Norbert Dumas | Patriote |
L'Islet | Charles-François Fournier | Patriote |
Lotbinière | Joseph Laurin | Patriote |
Mégantic | Dominick Daly | Conservative |
Dunbar Ross | Reformer | |
Missisquoi | William Badgley | Conservative |
Montmorency | Joseph-Édouard Cauchon | Patriote |
Montreal | Benjamin Holmes | Reformer |
Montreal | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | Reformer |
Montreal | André Jobin | Reformer |
Nicolet | Thomas Fortier | Patriote |
Ottawa | John Egan | Reformer |
Portneuf | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Reformer |
Quebec County | Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau | Reformer |
Quebec City | Thomas Cushing Aylwin | Patriote |
François-Xavier Méthot | Patriote | |
Quebec City | Jean Chabot | Conservative |
Richelieu | Wolfred Nelson | Patriote |
Rimouski | Joseph-Charles Taché | Patriote |
Rouville | Pierre Davignon | Patriote |
Saguenay | Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière | Patriote |
St. Hyacinthe | Thomas Boutillier | Reformer |
Saint-Maurice | Louis-Joseph Papineau | Patriote |
Shefford | Lewis Thomas Drummond | Conservative |
Sherbrooke | Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy | Conservative |
Sherbrooke | Samuel Brooks | Conservative |
Alexander Tilloch Galt | Independent | |
John Sewell Sanborn | Liberal | |
Stanstead | John McConnell | Conservative |
Terrebonne | Louis-Michel Viger | Patriote |
Trois-Rivières | Antoine Polette | Reformer |
Vaudreuil | Jean-Baptiste Mongenais | Patriote |
Verchères | James Leslie | Patriote |
George-Étienne Cartier | Reformer | |
Yamaska | Michel Fourquin | Reformer |
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