Legislative Council of the Province of Canada
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The Legislative Council of the Province of Canada was the upper house for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper Canada, then known as Canada West and later the province of Ontario. It was created by The Union Act of 1840.
The first session of parliament began in Kingston in Canada West in 1841.
The 24 members of the Legislative Council were originally appointed. In 1856, a bill was passed to replace the appointed members by election. Members were to be elected from 24 divisions in each of Canada East and Canada West. 12 members were elected every two years from 1856 to 1862.
The British North America Act of 1867 divided the Province of Canada into the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, each with representation in the Senate of Canada. Quebec had its own Legislative Council until 1968.
[edit] List of Members of the Legislative Council
| Member | District | Start | Stop | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augustus Warren Baldwin | Canada West | 1841 | 1841 | appointed |
| John Hamilton | Canada West | 1841 | 1867 | appointed1 |
| James Crooks | Canada West | 1841 | 1860 | appointed |
| William Morris | Canada West | 1841 | 1858 (died) | appointed |
| John Macaulay | Canada West | 1841 | 1857 (died) | appointed |
| Adam Fergusson | Canada West | 1841 | 1862 | appointed |
| Peter Boyle de Blaquière | Canada West | 1841 | 1860 (died) | appointed |
| Alexander Fraser | Canada West | 1841 | 1853 (died) | appointed |
| Thomas McKay | Canada West | 1841 | 1855 (died) | appointed |
| Robert Sympson Jameson | Canada West | 1841 | 1853 | appointed |
| John McDonald | Canada West | 1841 | 1843 | appointed |
| Robert Baldwin Sullivan | Canada West | 1841 | 1851 | appointed |
| René-Édouard Caron | Canada East | 1841 | 1857 | appointed |
| François-Pierre Bruneau | Canada East | 1841 | 1851 (died) | appointed |
| Antoine-Olivier Berthelet | Canada East | 1841 | 1841 | resigned |
| Philip Henry Moore | Canada East | 1841 | 1867 | appointed |
| Jules-Maurice Quesnel | Canada East | 1841 | 1842 (died) | appointed |
| Gabriel Roy | Canada East | 1841 | 1848 (died) | appointed |
| Barthélemy Joliette | Canada East | 1841 | 1850 (died) | appointed |
| Peter McGill | Canada East | 1841 | 1860 (died) | appointed |
| Adam Ferrie | Canada East | 1841 | 1863 | appointed |
| Paul Holland Knowlton | Canada East | 1841 | 1863 (died) | appointed |
| George Pemberton | Canada East | 1841 | 1849 | appointed |
| Étienne Mayrand | Canada East | 1841 | 1841 | resigned |
| John Fraser | Canada East | 1841 | 1843 | resigned |
| Jean-Baptiste Taché | Canada East | 1841 | 1849 (died) | appointed |
| Joseph Dionne | Canada East | 1842 | 1859 | appointed |
| William Walker | Canada East | 1842 | 1863 (died) | appointed |
| Amable Dionne | Canada East | 1842 | 1852 (died) | appointed |
| George Jervis Goodhue | Canada West | 1842 | 1867 | appointed |
| Levius Peters Sherwood | Canada West | 1842 | 1850 (died) | appointed |
| Louis Massue | Canada East | 1843 | 1851 | appointed 3 |
| Pierre-Amable Boucher de Boucherville | Canada East | 1843 | 1857 (died) | appointed |
| René-Joseph Kimber | Canada East | 1843 | 1843 (died) | appointed |
| Christopher Widmer | Canada West | 1843 | 1858 (died) | appointed |
| Jacob Æmilius Irving | Canada West | 1843 | 1856 (died) | appointed |
| William Henry Draper | Canada West | 1843 | 1844 | appointed |
| John Neilson | Canada East | 1844 | 1848 (died) | appointed |
| James Morris | Canada West | 1844 | 1865 (died) | appointed |
| James Gordon | Canada West | 1845 | 1865 (died) | appointed |
| James Ferrier | Canada East | 1847 | 1867 | appointed1 |
| Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey | Canada West | 1847 | 1857 | appointed |
| Roderick Matheson | Canada West | 1847 | 1867 | appointed 1 |
| George Strange Boulton | Canada West | 1847 | 1867 | appointed |
| Denis-Benjamin Viger | Canada East | 1848 | 1858 | appointed |
| James Leslie | Canada East | 1848 | 1867 | appointed1 |
| Étienne-Paschal Taché | Canada East | 1848 | 1865 (died) | appointed |
| Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel | Canada East | 1848 | 1866 (died) | appointed |
| Joseph Bourret | Canada East | 1848 | 1859 (died) | appointed |
| Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu | Canada East | 1848 | 1865 (died) | appointed |
| Louis Méthot | Canada East | 1848 | 1857 | appointed |
| Joseph-Ovide Turgeon | Canada East | 1848 | 1857 (died) | appointed |
| John Ross | Canada West | 1848 | 1867 | appointed1 |
| Samuel Crane | Canada West | 1849 | 1858 | appointed |
| Samuel Sylvester Mills | Canada West | 1849 | 1867 | appointed1 |
| Robert Jones | Canada East | 1849 | 1850 | resigned |
| Louis Panet | Canada East | 1852 | 1867 | appointed |
| Charles Wilson | Canada East | 1852 | 1867 | appointed 1 |
| Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau | Canada East | 1852 | 1867 | appointed |
| Benjamin Seymour | Canada West | 1854? | 1867 | appointed1 |
| David Morrison Armstrong | Canada East | 1855 | 1867 | appointed |
| Eusèbe Cartier | Canada East | 1855 | 1862 (died) | appointed |
| Joseph Légaré | Canada East | 1855 | 1855 (died) | appointed |
| Walter Hamilton Dickson | Canada West | 1855 | 1867 | appointed1 |
| Ebenezer Perry | Canada West | 1855 | 1867 | appointed1 |
| Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière | Laurentides | 1856 | 1864 | |
| Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay | Lauzon | 1856 | 1867 | 1 |
| John Simpson | Queen's | 1856 | 1867 | 1 |
| James Patton | Saugeen | 1856 | 1862 | 2 |
| Hollis Smith | Wellington | 1856 | 1863 (died) | |
| Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson | Thousand Islands | 1856 | 1864 | |
| Louis Renaud | Salaberry | 1856 | 1867 | 1 |
| Louis-Antoine Dessaulles | Rougemont | 1856 | 1863 | 3 |
| Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet | Rideau | 1856 | 1862 | |
| Harmannus Smith | Burlington | 1856 | 1864 | |
| John Prince | Western | 1857 | 1860 | 4 |
| Joseph-François Armand | Alma | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| George Crawford | Eastern | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| Alexander Campbell | Cataraqui | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| David Christie | Erie | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| Ulric-Joseph Tessier | Gulf | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski | Montarville | 1858 | 1861 | unseated |
| Jean-Baptiste Guévremont | Sorel | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| Pierre-Urgel Archambault | Repentigny | 1858 | 1867 | |
| Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | La Salle | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| George Alexander | Gore | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| George William Allan | York | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| Donald McDonald | Tecumseth | 1858 | 1867 | 1 |
| James Shaw | Bathurst | 1860 | 1867 | 1 |
| Robert Unwin Harwood | Rigaud | 1860 | 1863 | |
| David Reesor | King's | 1860 | 1867 | 1 |
| Asa Belknap Foster | Bedford | 1860 | 1867 | 1 |
| William Hamilton Merritt | Niagara | 1860 | 1862 (died) | |
| Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair | Brock | 1860 | 1867 | 1 |
| Pierre-Gabriel Huot | Stadacona | 1860 | 1861 | unseated |
| Luc Letellier de St-Just | Grandville | 1860 | 1867 | 1 |
| John Hamilton | Inkerman | 1860 | 1867 | 1 |
| Jean-Baptiste-Georges Proulx | La Vallière | 1860 | 1867 | |
| Malcolm Cameron | St. Clair | 1860 | 1863 | 5 |
| Allan Napier MacNab | Western | 1860 | 1862 (died) | |
| Andrew Jeffrey | Newcastle | 1860 | 1863 | |
| Louis Lacoste | Montarville | 1861 | 1867 | by-election 1 |
| Sidney Smith | Trent | 1861 | 1863 | resigned |
| Charles-François-Xavier Baby | Stadacona | 1861 | 1864 (died) | by-election |
| James Cox Aikins | Home | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| Thomas H. Bennett | St. Lawrence | 1862 | ||
| William McMaster | Midland | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| Jacques-Olivier Bureau | Lorimier | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| Elijah Leonard | Malahide | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| Charles-Christophe Malhiot | Shawinigan | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| François-Xavier Lemieux | La Durantaye | 1862 | 1864 (died) | |
| Alexandre Bareil, dit Lajoie | Lanaudière | 1862 | 1862 (died) | |
| Luther Hamilton Holton | Victoria | 1862 | 1863 | 6 |
| Robert Read | Quinte | 1862 | 1867 | |
| John McMurrich | Saugeen | 1862 | 1864 | by-election |
| Charles Cormier | Kennebec | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| James Currie | Niagara | 1862 | 1866 | resigned |
| Walter McCrea | Western | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| James Skead | Rideau | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| Oliver Blake | Thames | 1862 | 1867 | 1 |
| Louis-Auguste Olivier | Lanaudière | 1863 | 1867 | by-election |
| Alexander Vidal | St. Clair | 1863 | 1867 | 1 |
| John Sewell Sanborn | Wellington | 1863 | 1867 | acclaimed1 |
| Thomas Ryan | Victoria | 1863 | 1867 | by-election 1 |
| Billa Flint | Trent | 1863 | 1867 | by-election 1 |
| Eustache Prud'homme | Rigaud | 1863 | 1867 | by-election |
| Asa Burnham | Newcastle | 1863 | 1867 | 1 |
| William Henry Chaffers | Rougemont | 1864 | 1867 | 1 |
| David Edward Price | Laurentides | 1864 | 1867 | 1 |
| Joseph-Noël Bossé | La Durantaye | 1864 | 1867 | by-election 1 |
| Jean-Élie Gingras | Stadacona | 1864 | 1867 | by-election |
| Léandre Dumouchel | Thousand Islands | 1864 | 1867 | by-election 1 |
| David Lewis Macpherson | Saugeen | 1864 | 1867 | 1 |
| Harcourt Burland Bull | Burlington | 1864 | 1867 | 1 |
Notes:
- re-appointed to the Senate of Canada
- appointed Solicitor-General for Canada East
- resigned to accept appointment to government office
- appointed judge
- appointed Queen's printer
- appointed Minister of Finance
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