Legislative Council of Lower Canada

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The Legislative Council of Lower Canada was the upper house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The upper house consisted of appointed executive councillors who voted on bills passed up by the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. The legislative council was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. The council came to be dominated by the Château Clique, members of the province's most powerful families who were generally interested in preserving the status quo. Both the upper and lower houses were dissolved on March 27, 1838 following the Lower Canada Rebellion and Lower Canada was administered by an appointed Special Council.

Following the Act of Union in 1840, the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada was created in 1841.

[edit] List of Members of the Legislative Council

Member Start Stop
Adam Mabane [1] Jan 3 1792
John Fraser 1792 Dec 5 1795
François Baby 1792 Oct 6 1820
Thomas Dunn 1792 April 15 1818
Hugh Finlay 1792 Dec 26 1801
William Smith 1792 Dec 6 1793
Joseph-Dominique-Emmanuel Le Moyne de Longueuil 1792 Jan 19 1807
George Pownall 1792 Oct 17 1834
Paul-Roch de Saint-Ours 1792 Aug 11 1814
Edward Harrison 1792 Oct 15 1794
John Collins 1792 April 15 1795
François-Marie Picoté de Belestre 1792 March 30 1792
Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry 1792 Dec 11 1797
Charles-Louis Tarieu de Lanaudière 1792 Oct 2 1811
René-Amable Boucher de Boucherville 1792 Aug 31 1812
Henry Caldwell Feb 5 1793 May 28 1810
Jacob Mountain July 7 1793 June 16 1825
William Osgoode Jan 5 1795 Jan 17 1824
James Monk Jan 5 1795 June 1820 [2]
John Johnson 1796 Jan 4 1830
Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière 1796 Jan 1 1822
Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau 1798 Sept 18 1809
Jenkin Williams Feb 8 1803 Oct 30 1819
John Elmsley Feb 8 1803 Apr 29 1805
Henry Allcock Jan 21 1807 Feb 22 1808
Jonathan Sewell 1808 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Charles de Saint-Ours Dec 2 1808 Nov 11 1834
John Hale Dec 3 1808 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay Dec 12 1810 Feb 17 1825
John Caldwell Dec 15 1811 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Herman Witsius Ryland Dec 17 1811 Mar 27 1838 [3]
James Cuthbert Dec 18 1811 Mar 27 1838 [4]
Charles-Gaspard Tarieu de Lanaudière Dec 19 1811 June 7 1812
Charles William Grant Dec 21 1811 Mar 27 1848 [3]
Pierre-Ignace Aubert de Gaspé 1812 February 13 1823
Jacques-Nicolas Perrault Jan 1812 Aug 7 1812
John Blackwood Apr 9 1813 June 24 1819
Pierre-Dominique Debartzch Jan 17 1814 Mar 27 1838 [3]
William McGillivray Jan 19 1814 Oct 16 1825
Jean-Antoine Panet Jan 1815 May 17 1815
John Richardson Jan 24 1816 May 18 1831
Joseph-Octave Plessis April 30 1817 Dec 4 1825
Roderick Mackenzie May 10 1817 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry Dec 4 1817 Mar 22 1828
William Burns Jan 2 1818 Sept 25 1829
Michael Henry Perceval Jan 10 1818 Oct 12 1829
Olivier Perrault Jan 28 1818 Mar 19 1827
Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau Jan 28 1818 Oct 8 1826
William Scott Jan 29 1818 Jan 11 1820
Louis-René Chaussegros de Léry Feb 9 1818 Nov 28 1832
James Irvine Feb 20 1818 Sep 20 1829
Louis Turgeon Mar 10 1818 Sept 26 1827
Louis Gugy Apr 10 1818 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry Dec 14 1818 Feb 27 1829
James Kerr Oct 19 1821 Mar 27 1838 [3]
William Bowman Felton Apr 6 1822 June 30 1837
Mathew Bell Apr 30 1823 Mar 27 1838 [5]
Edward Bowen Feb 27 1824 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Toussaint Pothier July 22 1824 Mar 27 1838 [4]
John Stewart May 13 1825 Mar 27 1838 [3]
John Forsyth July 3 1827 Dec 27 1837
Charles James Stewart Jan 1828 July 13 1837
Jean-Thomas Taschereau May 2 1828 June 14 1832
Samuel Hatt Nov 29 1829 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Denis-Benjamin Viger Nov 30 1829 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Louis Guy Dec 20 1830 Mar 27 1838 [3]
George Moffatt Dec 24 1830 Mar 27 1838 [4]
Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu Nov 25 1831 June 19 1832
François-Roch de Saint-Ours Jan 1 1832 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Peter McGill Jan 3 1832 Mar 27 1838 [4]
John Molson Jan 4 1832 Jan 11 1836
Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière Jan 5 1832 Mar 27 1838 [4]
François-Xavier Malhiot Jan 6 1832 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Jean Dessaulles Jan 7 1832 June 20 1835
Barthélemy Joliette Jan 8 1832 Mar 27 1838 [4]
Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave Jan 9 1832 Mar 27 1838 [4]
Robert Unwin Harwood Jan 10 1832 Mar 27 1838 [4]
Antoine-Gaspard Couillard Jan 11 1832 Mar 27 1838 [4]
Jean-Baptiste Juchereau Duchesnay Apr 4 1832 Jan 13 1833
James Baxter Aug 1832 Nov 18 1837
Horatio Gates Aug 1 1832 Apr 11 1834
Robert Jones Aug 2 1832 Mar 27 1838 [3]
François Quirouet Oct 25 1833 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Joseph Masson Oct 16 1834 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Amable Dionne Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [4]
René-Édouard Caron Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Janvier-Domptail Lacroix Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Gabriel Marchand Aug 22 1837 [6] [5]
John Neilson Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [4]
John Pangman Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [3]
Melchior-Alphonse de Salaberry Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [5]
Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [3]
John Malcolm Fraser Aug 22 1837 Mar 27 1838 [3]

Notes: Unless otherwise noted, the member died in office.

  1. ^ named to council but died before being sworn into office
  2. ^ resigned
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Council dissolved on Mar 27 1838
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k named to Special Council
  5. ^ a b c declined invitation to serve on Special Council
  6. ^ named to Legislative Council but refused to join

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