Saint-Maurice (Lower Canada)

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Under the Constitutional Act of 1791, the district of Saint-Maurice was established. Its boundaries, which roughly covered the current Mauricie area except for the city of Trois-Rivières, were reduced when the district of Champlain was created in 1829. [1]

Saint-Maurice was represented simultaneoulsy by two Members at the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.

[edit] Members for Saint-Maurice (1792-1838)

  Name Party Election [2]
     Thomas Coffin Tory Party 1792
     Thomas Coffin Tory Party 1796
     Thomas Coffin Tory Party 1800
     David Monro Tory Party 1804
     Thomas Coffin [3] Tory Party 1808
     Louis Gugy Tory Party 1809
     François Caron Parti Canadien 1810
     Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal [4] Parti Canadien 1814
     Louis Gugy [5] Tory Party 1816
     Pierre Bureau Parti Canadien 1819
     Pierre Bureau Parti Canadien Spring 1820
     Pierre Bureau Parti Canadien Summer 1820
     Pierre Bureau Parti Canadien 1824
     Pierre Bureau Parti Canadien 1827
     Pierre Bureau Parti Canadien 1830
     Pierre Bureau Parti Patriote 1834
     Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie Parti Patriote 1836
     Name Party Election
     Augustin Rivard-Dufresne Parti Canadien 1792
     Nicholas Montour Tory Party 1796
     Mathew Bell Tory Party 1800
     Michel Caron Parti Canadien 1804
     Michel Caron Parti Canadien 1808
     Michel Caron Parti Canadien 1809
     Michel Caron Parti Canadien 1810
     Étienne Le Blanc Parti Canadien 1814
     Étienne Mayrand Tory Party 1816
     Louis Picotte Parti Canadien Spring 1820
     Louis Picotte Parti Canadien Summer 1820
     Charles Caron Parti Canadien 1824
     Charles Caron [6] Parti Canadien 1827
     Valère Guillet Parti Canadien 1830
     Valère Guillet Parti Patriote 1834
     François Lesieur Desaulniers Parti Patriote 1836

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ History of the electoral map of Québec, Chief Electoral Officer of Québec.
  2. ^ By-elections are indicated with Italic font.
  3. ^ Coffin dropped from the 1809 election.
  4. ^ Vallières lost the 1816 election.
  5. ^ Gugy resigned in 1818 to become a Legislative Councillor.
  6. ^ Caron lost the 1830 election.

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