5th Parliament of the Province of Canada
The 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1854 to November 1857. Elections for the Legislative Assembly were held in the Province of Canada in July 1854. Sessions were held in Quebec City until 1856 and then in Toronto.
In 1854-55, measures were introduced to abolish seigneurial tenure in Canada East and the clergy reserves in Canada West. The Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty was negotiated in 1854. In 1855, a bill was passed to make the Legislative Council an elected body, effective the following year. The Audit Act of 1855 established an auditor of public accounts and the Audit Board, a new government department, which reviewed the public accounts.
The Speaker of this parliament was Louis-Victor Sicotte.
Canada East
Notes:
Canada West
| Riding | Member | Party |
|---|---|---|
| East Brant | Daniel McKerlie [12] | Conservative |
| David Christie (1855) | Clear Grit | |
| West Brant | Herbert Biggar | Reformer |
| Brockville | George Crawford | Conservative |
| Bytown | Agar Yielding | Conservative |
| Carleton | William F. Powell | Conservative |
| Cornwall | Roderick McDonald | Clear Grit |
| Dundas | John Pliny Crysler | Conservative |
| East Durham | Francis H. Burton | Conservative |
| West Durham | Henry Munro | Reformer |
| East Elgin | George Southwick | Reformer |
| West Elgin | George Macbeth | Conservative |
| Essex | Arthur Rankin | Conservative |
| Frontenac | Henry Smith, Jr | Conservative |
| Glengarry | John Sandfield Macdonald | Clear Grit |
| Grenville | William Patrick | Reformer |
| Grey | George Jackson | Reformer |
| Haldimand | William Lyon Mackenzie | Reformer |
| Halton | George King Chisholm | Conservative |
| Hamilton | Allan Napier MacNab | Conservative |
| North Hastings | Edmund Murney [13] | Conservative |
| George Benjamin (1856) | Conservative | |
| South Hastings | Billa Flint | Clear Grit |
| Huron & Bruce | William Cayley | Tory |
| Kent | Edwin Larwill | Conservative |
| Kingston | John A. Macdonald | Conservative |
| Lambton | George Brown | Reformer |
| North Lanark | Robert Bell | Reformer |
| South Lanark | James Shaw | Conservative |
| North Leeds & Grenville | Basil R. Church | Reformer |
| South Leeds | Jesse Delong | Reformer |
| Lennox & Addington | David Roblin | Reformer |
| Lincoln | William Hamilton Merritt | Clear Grit |
| London | John Wilson | Conservative |
| East Middlesex | William E. Niles | Reformer |
| West Middlesex | John Scatcherd | Clear Grit |
| Niagara (town) | Joseph Curran Morrison | Reformer |
| Norfolk | John Rolph | Clear Grit |
| East Northumberland | James Ross | |
| West Northumberland | Sidney Smith | Reformer |
| North Ontario | Joseph Gould | Reformer |
| South Ontario | John McVeagh Lumsden | Clear Grit |
| North Oxford | Donald Matheson | Clear Grit |
| South Oxford | Ephraim Cook[14] | Clear Grit |
| Peel [15] | James Cox Aikins | Clear Grit |
| Perth | Thomas Mayne Daly | Reformer |
| Peterborough | John Langton [16] | Conservative |
| Wilson Seymour Conger (1856) | Conservative | |
| Prescott | Henry Wellesly McCann | Conservative |
| Prince Edward | David Barker Stevenson | Conservative |
| Renfrew | Francis Hincks [17] | Reformer |
| John Supple (1856) | ||
| Russell | George Byron Lyon-Fellowes | Conservative |
| North Simcoe | Angus Morrison | Reformer |
| South Simcoe | William Benjamin Robinson | Conservative |
| Stormont | William Mattice | Clear Grit |
| Toronto | John George Bowes | Conservative |
| Toronto | John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative |
| Victoria | James Smith | Reformer |
| North Waterloo | Michael Hamilton Foley | Reformer |
| South Waterloo | Robert Ferris | Clear Grit |
| Welland | John Fraser | Reformer |
| North Wellington | William Clarke | Conservative |
| South Wellington | Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair | Reformer |
| North Wentworth | Robert Spence | Independent |
| South Wentworth | Samuel B Freeman | Reformer |
| East York | Amos Wright | Reformer |
| North York | Joseph Hartman | Reformer |
| South York | John William Gamble | Tory |
Notes:
| Preceded by 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada |
Parliaments in the Province of Canada 1854-1857 |
Succeeded by 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada |
References
- ↑ Jean Chabot was elected in Bellechasse and Quebec City, choosing to represent the latter; Octave-Cyrille Fortier was elected in a by-election in October 1854.
- ↑ resigned for health reasons in January 1855; David Edward Price was elected in a by-election held in April 1855.
- ↑ formerly Montreal (county)
- ↑ formerly Leinster
- ↑ died in July 1857; George Bryson was elected in a by-election in October 1857.
- ↑ resigned his seat to accept an appointment; François Évanturel was elected in a by-election in August 1855.
- ↑ resigned to accept an appointment as judge; Georges-Honoré Simard was elected in a by-election in October 1856.
- ↑ resigned due to ill health in 1857; George Okill Stuart was elected in a by-election in April 1857.
- ↑ resigned his seat in 1857; Michel-Guillaume Baby was elected in a by-election in February 1857.
- ↑ resigned his seat to run unsuccessfully for a seat on the Legislative Council; William Henry Chaffers was elected in a by-election in October 1856.
- ↑ resigned his seat in 1857 to allow Louis-Siméon Morin to be elected.
- ↑ David Christie appealed the election of Daniel McKerlie and was declared elected in March 1855.
- ↑ resigned; George Benjamin was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1856.
- ↑ Francis Hincks, elected in both South Oxford & Renfrew, chose to sit for Renfrew; Ephraim Cook elected in October 1854
- ↑ formerly West York
- ↑ resigned his seat to become auditor general; Wilson Seymour Conger was elected in a by-election held in 1856.
- ↑ resigned his seat in November 1855; John Supple was elected in a by-election in the following year.
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- Côté, George Oliver (1860). Political appointments and elections in the province of Canada. 1841 to 1860. St. Michael & Darveau.