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22nd Quebec Legislature

{{Short description|Legislative session}}The 22nd Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the Quebec, Canada provincial legislature that existed from August 8, 1944, to July 28, 1948. The Union Nationale led by Maurice Duplessis returned to power after defeating the Quebec Liberal Party led by Adélard Godbout who defeated the Union Nationale in the 1939 elections. It was the first of four consecutive terms by the UN until 1960.

Seats per political party

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! colspan="2" | Affiliation

! Members

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row-name}}

| 48

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row-name}}

| 37

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Bloc populaire|row-name}}

| 4

{{Canadian party colour|QC|CCF|row-name}}

| 1

|align=left| Nationaliste

| 1

colspan="2" rowspan="1" align=left|  Total

| 91

colspan="2" rowspan="1" align=left|  Government Majority

| 11

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1944 election:

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!

!Name

!Party

!Riding

!First elected / previously elected

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Henri Drouin

|Libéral

|Abitibi-Est

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Émile Lesage

|Union Nationale

|Abitibi-Ouest

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Georges-Étienne Dansereau

|Libéral

|Argenteuil

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Pierre-Horace Plourde

|Libéral

|Arthabaska

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Cyrille Dumaine

|Libéral

|rowspan=2|Bagot

|1935, 1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Daniel Johnson (1946)

|Union Nationale

|1946

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Bloc populaire|row}}

|Édouard Lacroix

|Bloc populaire canadien

|rowspan=2|Beauce

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Georges-Octave Poulin (1945)

|Union Nationale

|1945

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Bloc populaire|row}}

|Albert Lemieux

|Bloc populaire canadien

|Beauharnois

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Valmore Bienvenue

|Libéral

|Bellechasse

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Armand Sylvestre

|Libéral

|Berthier

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Henri Jolicoeur

|Union Nationale

|Bonaventure

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Jonathan Robinson

|Union Nationale

|Brome

|1936

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Dowina-Évariste Joyal

|Libéral

|Chambly

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Maurice Bellemare

|Union Nationale

|Champlain

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Arthur Leclerc

|Union Nationale

|Charlevoix-Saguenay

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Honoré Mercier III

|Libéral

|Châteauguay

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Antonio Talbot

|Union Nationale

|Chicoutimi

|1938

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|William James Duffy

|Libéral

|rowspan=2|Compton

|1931, 1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Charles Daniel French (1946)

|Union Nationale

|1946

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Paul Sauvé

|Union Nationale

|Deux-Montagnes

|1930, 1936

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-Damase Bégin

|Union Nationale

|Dorchester

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Robert Bernard

|Union Nationale

|Drummond

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Patrice Tardif

|Union Nationale

|Frontenac

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-Alphonse Pelletier

|Union Nationale

|Gaspé-Nord

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Camille-Eugène Pouliot

|Union Nationale

|Gaspé-Sud

|1936

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Joseph-Célestin Nadon

|Libéral

|Gatineau

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Alexandre Taché

|Union Nationale

|Hull

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Dennis James O'Connor

|Libéral

|rowspan=2|Huntingdon

|1941

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|John Gillies Rennie (1947)

|Union Nationale

|1947

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Yvon Thuot

|Union Nationale

|Iberville

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Hormisdas Langlais

|Union Nationale

|Îles-de-la-Madeleine

|1936

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Charles-Aimé Kirkland

|Libéral

|Jacques-Cartier

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Antonio Barrette

|Union Nationale

|Joliette

|1936

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Louis Philippe Lizotte

|Libéral

|Kamouraska

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Albiny Paquette

|Union Nationale

|Labelle

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Joseph-Ludger Fillion

|Libéral

|Lac-Saint-Jean

|1931, 1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Victor-Stanislas Chartrand

|Union Nationale

|L'Assomption

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|François Leduc

|Libéral

|Laval

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Charles Romulus Ducharme

|Union Nationale

|Laviolette

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-Théophile Larochelle

|Union Nationale

|Lévis

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Adélard Godbout

|Libéral

|L'Islet

|1929, 1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Guy Roberge

|Libéral

|Lotbinière

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Albert Gatien

|Union Nationale

|Maisonneuve

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Germain Caron

|Union Nationale

|Maskinongé

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Onésime Gagnon

|Union Nationale

|Matane

|1936

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Philippe Cossette

|Union Nationale

|Matapédia

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Tancrède Labbé

|Union Nationale

|Mégantic

|1935, 1940

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Henri A. Gosselin

|Libéral

|Missisquoi

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Maurice Tellier

|Union Nationale

|Montcalm

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Fernand Choquette

|Libéral

|Montmagny

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Jacques Dumoulin

|Libéral

|Montmorency

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Joseph-Émile Dubreuil

|Libéral

|Montréal–Jeanne-Mance

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Bloc populaire|row}}

|rowspan=2|André Laurendeau

|Bloc populaire canadien

|rowspan=2|Montréal-Laurier

|rowspan=2|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Independent|row}}

|Independent

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Joseph-Achille Francoeur

|Libéral

|Montréal-Mercier

|1931, 1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|James Arthur Mathewson

|Libéral

|Montréal–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Henri Groulx

|Libéral

|Montréal-Outremont

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Thomas Guerin

|Libéral

|Montréal–Sainte-Anne

|1942

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Camille Côté

|Union Nationale

|Montréal–Sainte-Marie

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-Hormisdas Delisle

|Union Nationale

|Montréal–Saint-Henri

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Omer Côté

|Union Nationale

|Montréal–Saint-Jacques

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Maurice Hartt

|Libéral

|Montréal–Saint-Louis

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Lionel-Alfred Ross

|Libéral

|Montréal-Verdun

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Hercule Riendeau

|Union Nationale

|Napierville-Laprairie

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Émery Fleury

|Union Nationale

|Nicolet

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Roméo Lorrain

|Union Nationale

|Papineau

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Edward Charles Lawn

|Libéral

|Pontiac

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Bona Dussault

|Union Nationale

|Portneuf

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Joseph-William Morin

|Libéral

|Québec-Centre

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Nationaliste|row}}

|René Chaloult

|Nationaliste{{efn|First elected as a Union Nationale candidate}}

|Québec-Comté

|1936

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Henri-Paul Drouin

|Libéral

|Québec-Est

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Wilfrid Samson

|Libéral

|Québec-Ouest

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Joseph-Willie Robidoux

|Libéral

|Richelieu

|1942

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Albert Goudreau

|Union Nationale

|Richmond

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Alfred Dubé

|Union Nationale

|Rimouski

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Léon Casgrain

|Libéral

|Rivière-du-Loup

|1927

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Antoine Marcotte

|Union Nationale

|Roberval

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Laurent Barré

|Union Nationale

|Rouville

|1931, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|CCF|row}}

|rowspan=2|David Côté

|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|rowspan=2|Rouyn-Noranda

|rowspan=2|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Independent|row}}

|Independent

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Ernest-Joseph Chartier

|Union Nationale

|Saint-Hyacinthe

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Jean-Paul Beaulieu

|Union Nationale

|Saint-Jean

|1941

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Marc Trudel

|Union Nationale

|Saint-Maurice

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Wilfrid Hamel

|Libéral

|Saint-Sauveur

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Hector Choquette

|Union Nationale

|Shefford

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|John Samuel Bourque

|Union Nationale

|Sherbrooke

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Bloc populaire|row}}

|Ovila Bergeron

|Bloc populaire canadien

|Stanstead

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Nil-Élie Larivière

|Union Nationale

|Témiscamingue

|1935, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|André Pelletier

|Union Nationale

|Témiscouata

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-Léonard Blanchard

|Union Nationale

|Terrebonne

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Maurice Duplessis

|Union Nationale

|Trois-Rivières

|1927

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Alphide Sabourin

|Libéral

|Vaudreuil-Soulanges

|1939

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Arthur Dupré

|Libéral

|Verchères

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|George Carlyle Marler

|Libéral

|Westmount–Saint-Georges

|1942

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Henri Vachon

|Union Nationale

|Wolfe

|1936, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Antonio Élie

|Union Nationale

|Yamaska

|1931

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during this term

  • Georges-Octave Poulin, Union Nationale, Beauce, November 21, 1945 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-beauce-sud.html#1945p]
  • Charles Daniel French, Union Nationale, Compton, July 3, 1946 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-compton.html#1946p]
  • Daniel Johnson, Union Nationale, Bagot, December 18, 1946 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-johnson.html#1946p]
  • John Gillies Rennie, Union Nationale, Huntingdon, July 23, 1947 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-huntingdon.html#1947p]

Cabinet Ministers

  • Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Maurice Duplessis
  • Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
  • Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
  • Labour: Antonio Barrette
  • Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
  • Health and Social Welfare: Albiny Paquette (1944-1946)
  • Social Welfare and Youth: Paul Sauvé (1946-1948)
  • Health: Albiny Paquette (1947-1948)
  • Lands and Forests: John Samuel Bourque
  • Hunting and Coastal Fisheries: Camille-Eugène Pouliot
  • Mines: Jonathan Robinson
  • Hydraulic resources: John Samuel Bourque (1945-1948)
  • Roads: Antonio Talbot
  • Municipal Affairs: Bona Dussault
  • Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
  • Attorney General: Maurice Duplessis
  • Provincial Secretary: Omer Côté
  • Treasurer: Onésime Gagnon
  • Members without portfolios: Thomas Chapais, Antonio Élie, Tancrède Labbé, Marc Trudel, Patrice Tardif, Joseph-Hormisdas Delisle, Joseph-Théophile Larochelle

New electoral districts

The electoral map was slightly modified in 1945 as the Charlevoix et Saguenay riding was split into two new ridings: Charlevoix and Saguenay. The change was effective in the 1948 elections. [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/electcomte-1945.html]

Notes

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References

{{reflist}}

External Links

  • [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/elect22.html 1944 election results]
  • [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/patrimoine/cabinets2.html List of historical Cabinet Ministers]

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