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The 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1854 to November 1857. Elections 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.

[edit] Canada East

Riding	Member	Party
Argenteuil	Sydney Robert Bellingham	Reformer
Bagot	Timothée Brodeur	Reformer
Beauce	Dunbar Ross	Rouge
Beauharnois	Charles Daoust	Rouge
Bellechasse	Octave-Cyrille Fortier (1854) ^[1]	Bleu
Berthier	Pierre-Eustache Dostaler	Reformer
Chambly	Noël Darche	Rouge
Champlain	Thomas Marchildon	Rouge
Châteauguay	Jacob De Witt	Rouge
Chicoutimi and Tadoussac	Augustin-Norbert Morin ^[2]	Reformer
	David Edward Price (1855)	Conservative
Compton	John Sewell Sanborn	Liberal
Deux-Montagnes	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Reformer
Dorchester	Barthélemy Pouliot	Reformer
Drummond—Arthabaska	Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion	Rouge
Gaspé	John Le Boutillier	Reformer
Hochelaga	Joseph Laporte	Reformer
Huntingdon	Robert Brown Somerville	Independent
Iberville	Charles Laberge	Rouge
Jacques-Cartier ^[3]	Michel-François Valois	Rouge
Joliette	Joseph-Hilarion Jobin	Rouge
Kamouraska	Jean-Charles Chapais	Reformer
Laprairie	Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger	Independent
L'Assomption^[4]	Joseph Papin	Rouge
Laval	Pierre Labelle	Bleu
Lévis	François-Xavier Lemieux	Reformer
L'Islet	Charles-François Fournier	Reformer
Lotbinière	John O'Farrell	Moderate
Maskinongé	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	Reformer
Mégantic	William Rhodes	Reformer
East Missisquoi	James Moir Ferres	Tory
West Missisquoi	Hannibal Hodges Whitney	Reformer
Montcalm	Joseph Dufresne	Bleu
Montmagny	Louis-Napoléon Casault	Moderate
Montmorency	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Reformer
Montreal	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Rouge
Montreal	Luther Hamilton Holton	Rouge
Montreal	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Rouge
Montreal	John Young	Rouge
Nicolet	Thomas Fortier	Reformer
Napierville	Jacques-Olivier Bureau	Rouge
Ottawa	Alanson Cooke	Rouge
Pontiac	John Egan ^[5]	Reformer
	George Bryson (1857)	Conservative
Portneuf	Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau	Reformer
Quebec County	Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau ^[6]	Reformer
	François Évanturel (1855)	Bleu
Quebec City	Jean Chabot ^[7]	Reformer
	Georges-Honoré Simard (1856)	Bleu
Quebec City	Jean Blanchet ^[8]	Reformer
	George Okill Stuart (1857)	Conservative
Quebec City	Charles Joseph Alleyn	Conservative
Richelieu	Jean-Baptiste Guévremont	Moderate
Rimouski	Joseph-Charles Taché ^[9]	Reformer
	Michel-Guillaume Baby (1857)	Bleu
Rouville	Joseph-Napoléon Poulin ^[10]	Reformer
	William Henry Chaffers (1856)	Rouge
Saguenay	Pierre-Gabriel Huot	Independent
St. Hyacinthe	Louis-Victor Sicotte	Liberal
Saint-Jean	François Bourassa	Rouge
Saint-Maurice	Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers	Reformer
Shefford	Lewis Thomas Drummond	Liberal
Sherbrooke	Alexander Tilloch Galt	Independent
Sherbrooke (county) and Wolfe	William Locker Pickmore Felton	Conservative
Soulanges	Luc-Hyacinthe Masson	Reformer
Stanstead	Timothy Lee Terrill	Moderate
Témiscouata	Benjamin Dionne	Reformer
Terrebonne	Gédéon-Mélasippe Prévost ^[11]	Rouge
	Louis-Siméon Morin (1857)	Bleu
Trois-Rivières	Antoine Polette	Reformer
Vaudreuil	Jean-Baptiste Mongenais	Reformer
Verchères	George-Étienne Cartier	Reformer
Yamaska	Ignace Gill	Conservative

Notes:

[edit] 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 Yeilding	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
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
West Northumberland	Sidney Smith	Reformer
North Ontario	Joseph Gould	Reformer
South Ontario	J McV Lumsden	Clear Grit
Oxford	Donald Matheson	Conservative
South Oxford	Ephraim Cook
Peel ^[14]	James Cox Aikins	Clear Grit
Perth	Thomas Mayne Daly	Reformer
Peterborough	John Langton ^[15]	Conservative
	Wilson Seymour Conger (1856)	Conservative
Prescott	Henry Wellesly McCann	Conservative
Prince Edward	David Barker Stevenson	Conservative
Renfrew	Francis Hincks ^[16]	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 Clark	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

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^ 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.
^ 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.

Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)

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[0] 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.

[1] resigned for health reasons in January 1855; David Edward Price was elected in a by-election held in April 1855.

[2] rmerly Montreal (county)

[3] rmerly Leinster

[4] July 1857; George Bryson was elected in a by-election in October 1857.

[5] resigned his seat to accept an appointment; François Évanturel was elected in a by-election in August 1855.

[6] resigned to accept an appointment as judge; Georges-Honoré Simard was elected in a by-election in October 1856.

[7] resigned due to ill health in 1857; George Okill Stuart was elected in a by-election in April 1857.

[8] resigned his seat in 1857; Michel-Guillaume Baby was elected in a by-election in February 1857.

[9] 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.

[10] resigned his seat in 1857 to allow Louis-Siméon Morin to be elected.

[11] David Christie appealed the election of Daniel McKerlie and was declared elected in March 1855.

[12] resigned; George Benjamin was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1856.

[13] rmerly West York

[14] resigned his seat to become auditor general; Wilson Seymour Conger was elected in a by-election held in 1856.

[15] resigned his seat in November 1855; John Supple was elected in a by-election in the following year.

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