23rd New Brunswick Legislature
The 23rd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between February 18, 1875 and May 14, 1878.
Samuel Leonard Tilley served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.
William Wedderburn was chosen as speaker.
The Conservative Party led by George E. King formed the government.
In 1876, an informal accommodation was reached with Roman Catholics in the province with respect to religious instruction in schools. Where the arrangement was agreeable to the local school board, religious instruction could be carried out in buildings owned by the Church and rented to the province for use as public schools.
List of Members
Electoral District | Name |
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Saint John County | Henry A. Austin |
George E. King | |
Joseph Coram[1] William Elder (1875) | |
Edward Willis | |
York | J.J. Fraser |
Thomas F. Barker | |
Robert Robinson | |
Hiram Dow | |
Westmorland | Edward J. Smith |
Angus McQueen | |
J.A. Humphrey | |
Thomas Pickard | |
Kings | John Herbert Crawford |
John Flewelling | |
Robert E. McLeod | |
Queens | Walter S. Butler |
Francis Woods | |
Charlotte | James Murchie |
Benjamin Robert Stephenson | |
James McKay | |
Thomas Cottrell | |
Northumberland | W.M. Kelly |
William Swim | |
Lemuel J. Tweedie | |
Allan A. Davidson | |
Sunbury | William E. Perley |
John S. Covert | |
Kent | Henry O'Leary |
Urbain Johnson | |
Gloucester | Kennedy F. Burns |
T. Blanchard [2] Patrick G. Ryan (1876) | |
Carleton | John S. Leighton |
Randolph K. Jones | |
Restigouche | Archibald McKenzie |
John Phillips | |
Albert | Alexander Rogers |
James Ryan | |
Victoria | William B. Beveridge |
Madawaska | Lévite Thériault |
Saint John City | William Wedderburn |
William H.A. Keans [3] Robert Marshall (1876) |
Notes:
Preceded by 22nd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly |
Legislative Assemblies of New Brunswick 1875-1878 |
Succeeded by 24th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly |