6th Parliament of the Province of Canada

{{Short description|British colonial legislature from 1857 to 1861}}

The 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in January 1858, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in December 1857. Sessions were held in Toronto in 1858 and then in Quebec City from 1859. The Parliament was dissolved in May 1861.

The 1858 parliamentary session was one of the longest and nastiest in Canadian history, opening in January 1858, just as news arrived from London that Queen Victoria had chosen Ottawa as the permanent seat for the Canadian government.Ged Martin, John A. Macdonald: Canada's first prime minister (Toronto: Dundurn, 2013), p. 19 In August 1858 the Macdonald-Cartier ministry carried out the divisive "double shuffle" that allowed the ministry to stay in power without facing by-elections.Double Shuffle https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/double-shuffle

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was Sir Henry Smith.

Electoral system

Each voter could cast as many votes as there were seats to fill in the district (First-past-the-post voting).Parliamentary Guide

Montreal and Quebec City elected three members; Toronto elected two members. All others elected just one member.

(Previous to the next election, all districts were changed to single-member districts.)

Canada East - 65 seats

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!Riding

!Member

!Party

Argenteuil

|Sydney Robert Bellinghamelection was declared invalid after an appeal; John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was declared elected in March 1860 after an inquiry by a committee of the Legislative Assembly.

|Reformer

|John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1860)

|Liberal

|Rouge

|Rouge

|Bleu

|Octave-Cyrille Fortier

|Bleu

|Rouge

|Reformer

|Conservative

|Bleu

|Joseph-Édouard Turcotte

|Bleu

|Bleu

|Conservative

|Conservative

|Conservative

|Jean-Baptiste Daoust

|Reformer

Dorchester

|Hector-Louis Langevin

|Bleu

|Conservative

|Reformer

|Bleu

|Robert Brown Somerville

|Independent

Iberville

|Charles Laberge

|Rouge

Jacques-Cartier

|François-Zéphirin Tassé

|Bleu

Joliette

|Joseph-Hilarion Jobin

|Rouge

Laprairie

|Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger

|Bleu

Kamouraska

|Jean-Charles Chapais

|Reformer

|Bleu

|Bleu

|François-Xavier Lemieux

|Liberal-Conservative

L'Islet

|Louis-Bonaventure Caronelection was declared invalid; Charles-François Fournier was declared elected in June 1858.

|Rouge

|Charles-François Fournier (1858)

|Reformer

Lotbinière

|John O'Farrellelection was declared invalid; Lewis Thomas Drummond was elected in a by-election in October 1858.

|Conservative

|Lewis Thomas Drummond (1858)

|Liberal

Maskinongé

|Louis-Honoré Gauvreaudied in office in 1858; George Caron was elected in a by-election in December 1858.

|Bleu

|George Caron (1858)

|Bleu

Mégantic

|Noël Hébert

|Rouge

Missisquoi

|Hannibal Hodges Whitney

|Conservative

Montcalm

|Joseph Dufresne

|Bleu

Montmagny

|Joseph-Octave Beaubien

|Bleu

Montmorency

|Joseph-Édouard Cauchon

|Bleu

Montreal

|John Rose

|Conservative

Montreal

|Antoine-Aimé Dorion

|Rouge

Montreal

|Rouge

|Bleu

|Jacques-Olivier Bureau

|Rouge

Ottawa

|Denis-Émery Papineau

|Rouge

Pontiac

|Edmund Heath

|Conservative

Portneuf

|Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau

|Reformer

Quebec County

|Charles Panet

|Bleu

Quebec City

|Charles Joseph Alleyn

|Conservative

Quebec City

|Georges-Honoré Simard

|Bleu

Quebec City

|Hippolyte Dubordelection was declared invalid in April 1860; Pierre-Gabriel Huot was elected in a by-election in May 1860.

|Bleu

|Pierre-Gabriel Huot (1860)

|Rouge

Richelieu

|Jacques-Félix Sincennes

|Bleu

Richmond—Wolfeformerly Sherbrooke (county) and Wolfe

|William Hoste Webb

|Conservative

Rimouski

|Michel-Guillaume Baby

|Bleu

Rouville

|Thomas Edmund Campbell

|Conservative

St. Hyacinthe

|Louis-Victor Sicotte

|Bleu

Saint-Jean

|François Bourassa

|Rouge

Saint-Maurice

|Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers

|Bleu

Shefford

|Lewis Thomas Drummonddefeated in a by-election in Shefford in September 1858 after he was appointed to cabinet; Asa Belknap Foster was elected to the seat.

|Liberal

|Asa Belknap Foster (1858)

|Conservative

Sherbrooke

|Alexander Tilloch Galt

|Liberal-Conservative

Soulanges

|Dominique-Amable Coutlée

|Bleu

|Moderate

|Reformer

|Bleu

|William McDonell Dawson

|Conservative

Vaudreuil

|Robert Unwin Harwoodresigned his seat to run for a seat on the Legislative Council; Jean-Baptiste Mongenais was elected in a by-election in November 1860.

|Conservative

|Jean-Baptiste Mongenais (1860)

|Bleu

Verchères

|George-Étienne Cartier

|Bleu

Yamaska

|Ignace Gill

|Conservative

Canada West - 65 seats

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!Riding

!Member

!Party

East Brant

|David Christieresigned after being elected to the Legislative Council in 1858; Hugh Finlayson was elected in a by-election in 1858.

|Reformer

|Hugh Finlayson (1858)

West Brant

|Reformer

|Conservative

|Conservative

|John Sandfield Macdonald

|Reformer

Dundas

|James William Cook

|Reformer

East Durham

|Francis H. Burton

|Conservative

West Durham

|Henry Munro

|Reformer

East Elgin

|Leonidas Burwell

|Reformer

West Elgin

|Conservative

|Conservative

|Henry Smith, Jr

|Conservative

Glengarry

|Donald Alexander Macdonald

|Reformer

Grenville

|William Patrick

|Reformer

Grey

|John Sheridan Hoganmissing from 1 December 1859; body discovered in Don River. He was murdered.

|Independent Liberal

|J.T. Purdy (1861)

|Reformer

Haldimand

|William Lyon Mackenzieresigned his seat in August 1858; Michael Harcourt was elected in an October 1858 by-election

|Reformer

|Michael Harcourt (1858)

|Reformer

|Reformer

|Independent

North Hastings

|George Benjamin

|Conservative

South Hastings

|Lewis Wallbridge

|Reformer

Huron & Bruce

|John Holmes

|Reformer

|Reformer

|Liberal-Conservative

Lambton

|Malcolm Cameronresigned after being elected to the Legislative Council in 1860; Hope Fleming Mackenzie was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1860.

|Grit

|Hope Fleming Mackenzie (1860)

|Reformer

North Lanark

|Robert Bell

|Reform

South Lanark

|Andrew W. Playfair

North Leeds & Grenville

|Basil R. Churchdied in 1858; Ogle Robert Gowan was elected in a by-election later that year.

|Reformer

|Ogle Robert Gowan (1858)

|Conservative

South Leeds

|Conservative

|Reformer

|William Hamilton Merrittresigned after being elected to the Legislative Council in 1860; J.C. Rykert was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1860.

|Reformer

|John Charles Rykert (1860)

|Reformer

London

|John Carling

|Liberal-Conservative

East Middlesex

|Marcus Talbotdied in March 1860; Robert Craik was elected to his seat in 1860.

|Conservative

|Robert Craik (1860)

|Reformer

West Middlesex

|John Scatcherddied in June 1858; Angus Peter McDonald was elected to his seat in 1858.

|Angus Peter McDonald (1858)

|Conservative

|Reformer

East Northumberland

|John R Clark

|Reformer

West Northumberland

|Sidney Smith

|Reformer

North Ontario

|Joseph Gould

|Reformer

South Ontario

|Oliver Mowat

|Reformer

Ottawa

|Richard William Scott

|Liberal-Conservative

North Oxford

|William McDougall (1858)George Brown, elected in both North Oxford and Toronto, chose to sit for Toronto; William McDougall elected in a May 1858 by-election

|Reformer

South Oxford

|George Skeffington Connor

|Reformer

|Clear Grit

|Liberal-Conservative

Peterborough

|Thomas Short

|Reformer

Prescott

|Henry Wellesly McCann

|Conservative

Prince Edward

|Willet C Dorland

|Conservative

Renfrew

|John Lorn McDougallresigned his seat to allow William Cayley to be elected in a by-election held in March 1858.

|Reformer

|William Cayley (1858)

|Tory

Russell

|George Byron Lyon-Felloweselection declared fraudulent in October 1859; John W Loux elected in a December 1859 by-election.

|Conservative

|John W Loux (1859)

North Simcoe

|Angus Morrison

|Reform

South Simcoe

|Thomas Roberts Ferguson

|Conservative

|Reformer

|Reformer

Toronto

|John Beverley Robinson

|Conservative

Victoria

|John Cameron

|Conservative

North Waterloo

|Michael Hamilton Foley

|Reform

South Waterloo

|William Scott

|Conservative

Welland

|Gilbert McMicken

|Reformer

North Wellington

|Charles Allan election appealed;James Ross was elected in an 1859 by-election.

|James Ross (1859)

|Reformer

South Wellington

|David Stirton

|Reformer

North Wentworth

|William Notman

|Reformer

South Wentworth

|Joseph Rymal

|Reformer

East York

|Amos Wright

|Reformer

North York

|Joseph Hartmandied in November 1859; Adam Wilson was elected to his seat in 1860.

|Reformer

|Adam Wilson (1860)

|Reformer

West York formerly South York; prior to that, 1st York

|William Pearce Howland

|Reformer

References

Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)
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External links

[https://archive.today/20121205222404/http://www.nosracines.ca/e/toc.asp?id=3098 Ontario's parliament buildings ; or, A century of legislation, 1792-1892 : a historical sketch]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20091217055751/http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/patrimoine/ Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)]

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