The 7th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1861 to May 1863. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in 1861. This was the first election in Canada to use a list of eligible voters prepared before the election. All sessions were held in Quebec City. The 7th Parliament ended following a vote of no confidence on May 6 1863.

Contents 1 Canada East 2 Canada West 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Canada East

Riding	Member	Party
Argenteuil	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott	Liberal
Bagot	Maurice Laframboise	Rouge
Beauce	Henri-Elzéar Taschereau	Bleu
Beauharnois	Paul Denis	Bleu
Bellechasse	Édouard Rémillard	Rouge
Berthier	Pierre-Eustache Dostaler
Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Bleu
Brome	Moses Sweet [1]
	Christopher Dunkin (1862)	Conservative
Chambly	Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville	Bleu
Champlain	John Jones Ross	Bleu
Charlevoix	Adolphe Gagnon	Rouge
Châteauguay	Henry Starnes	Conservative
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	David Edward Price	Conservative
Compton	John Henry Pope	Conservative
Deux-Montagnes	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Reformer
Dorchester	Hector-Louis Langevin	Bleu
Drummond—Arthabaska	Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion	Rouge
Gaspé	John Le Boutillier	Bleu
Hochelaga	Paschal Falkner [2]	Rouge
	Antoine-Aimé Dorion (1862)	Rouge
Huntingdon	Robert Brown Somerville	Independent
Iberville	Alexandre Dufresne	Rouge
Jacques-Cartier	François-Zéphirin Tassé	Bleu
Joliette	Joseph-Hilarion Jobin	Rouge
Kamouraska	Jean-Charles Chapais	Bleu
Laprairie	Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger [3]	Independent
	Alfred Pinsonneault (1863)	Bleu
L'Assomption	Alexandre Archambault	Rouge
Laval	Pierre Labelle [4]	Bleu
	Louis-Siméon Morin (1861)	Bleu
Lévis	Joseph-Godric Blanchet	Bleu
L'Islet	Charles-François Fournier	Bleu
Lotbinière	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Rouge
Maskinongé	George Caron	Bleu
Mégantic	Noël Hébert	Rouge
Missisquoi	James O'Halloran	Rouge
Montcalm	Jean-Louis Martin [5]
	Joseph Dufresne (1862)	Bleu
Montmagny	Joseph-Octave Beaubien	Bleu
Montmorency	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Bleu
Montreal Centre	John Rose	Conservative
Montreal East	George-Étienne Cartier	Bleu
Montreal West	Thomas D'Arcy McGee	Rouge
Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Bleu
Napierville	Jacques-Olivier Bureau	Rouge
Ottawa	William McDonell Dawson	Conservative
Pontiac	John Poupore	Bleu
Portneuf	Jean-Docile Brousseau	Liberal-Conservative
Quebec County	François Évanturel	Liberal
Quebec-Centre	Georges-Honoré Simard	Bleu
Quebec West	Charles Joseph Alleyn	Conservative
Quebec East	Pierre-Gabriel Huot	Rouge
Richelieu	Joseph Beaudreau	Bleu
Richmond—Wolfe	Charles de Cazes	Independent
Rimouski	George Sylvain	Liberal
Rouville	Lewis Thomas Drummond	Rouge
St. Hyacinthe	Louis-Victor Sicotte	Bleu
Saint-Jean	François Bourassa	Rouge
Saint-Maurice	Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers	Bleu
Shefford	Lucius Seth Huntington	Rouge
Sherbrooke	Alexander Tilloch Galt	Liberal-Conservative
Soulanges	Jean-Baptiste-Jules Prévost	Moderate
Stanstead	Albert Knight	Conservative
Témiscouata	Michel-Guillaume Baby	Bleu
Terrebonne	Louis Labrèche-Viger	Rouge
Trois-Rivières	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	Bleu
Vaudreuil	Jean-Baptiste Mongenais	Bleu
Verchères	Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski [6]	Rouge
	Charles-François Painchaud (1863)
Yamaska	Moïse Fortier	Rouge

Notes:

[edit] Canada West

Riding	Member	Party
East Brant	John Young Bown	Reformer
West Brant	William Ryerson	Independent
Brockville	George Sherwood	Conservative
Carleton	William F. Powell	Conservative
Cornwall	John Sandfield Macdonald	Reformer
Dundas	John Sylvester Ross	Conservative
East Durham	John Shuter Smith	Reformer
West Durham	Henry Munro	Reformer
East Elgin	Leonidas Burwell	Reformer
West Elgin	George Macbeth [7]	Conservative
	John Scoble (1863)	Reformer
Essex	Arthur Rankin [8]	Reformer
	John O'Connor (1863)	Conservative
Frontenac	James Morton	Conservative
Glengarry	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Reformer
Grenville	William Patrick	Reformer
Grey	George Jackson	Conservative
Haldimand	Michael Harcourt	Reformer
Halton	John White	Reformer
Hamilton	Isaac Buchanan	Independent
North Hastings	George Benjamin	Conservative
South Hastings	Lewis Wallbridge	Reformer
Huron & Bruce	James Dickson	Reformer
Kent	Archibald McKellar	Reformer
Kingston	John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative
Lambton	Alexander Mackenzie	Reformer
North Lanark	Robert Bell	Reform
South Lanark	Alexander Morris	Conservative
North Leeds & Grenville	Francis Jones	Conservative
South Leeds	Benjamin Tett	Conservative
Lennox & Addington	Augustus Frederick Garland Hooper	Conservative
Lincoln	John Charles Rykert	Liberal-Conservative
London	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative
East Middlesex	Maurice Berkeley Portman	Conservative
West Middlesex	Thomas Scatcherd	Reformer
Niagara (town)	John Simpson	Conservative
Norfolk	Aquila Walsh	Conservative
East Northumberland	James Lyons Biggar	Reformer
West Northumberland	James Cockburn	Conservative
North Ontario	Matthew Crooks Cameron	Conservative
South Ontario	Oliver Mowat	Reformer
Ottawa	Richard William Scott	Liberal-Conservative
North Oxford	William McDougall	Reformer
South Oxford	George Skeffington Connor [9]	Reformer
	George Brown (1863)	Reformer
Peel	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative
Perth	Michael Hamilton Foley [10]	Reformer
	Thomas Mayne Daly (1862)	Liberal-Conservative
Peterborough	Frederick W. Haultain	Conservative
Prescott	Henry Wellesly McCann	Conservative
Prince Edward	William Anderson	Conservative
Renfrew	Daniel McLachlin	Liberal-Conservative
Russell	Robert Bell	Conservative
North Simcoe	Angus Morrison	Reformer
South Simcoe	Thomas Roberts Ferguson	Conservative
Stormont	Samuel Ault	Reformer
East Toronto	John Willoughby Crawford	Conservative
West Toronto	John Beverley Robinson	Conservative
Victoria	James W Dunsford	Liberal-Conservative
North Waterloo	Michael Hamilton Foley [10]	Reform
South Waterloo	James Cowan	Reform
Welland	Thomas Clark Street	Conservative
North Wellington	William Clark	Conservative
South Wellington	David Stirton	Reformer
North Wentworth	William Notman	Reformer
South Wentworth	Joseph Rymal	Reformer
East York	Amos Wright	Reformer
North York	Adam Wilson	Reformer
West York	William Pearce Howland	Reformer

Notes:

Preceded by 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada

Parliaments in the Province of Canada 1861-1863

Succeeded by 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada

[edit] References

1. ^ resigned his seat to accept a post in 1862; Christopher Dunkin was elected in a by-election in March 1862.
2. ^ gave up his seat to allow Antoine-Aimé Dorion to be elected in a by-election in June 1862.
3. ^ was appointed judge in 1863; Alfred Pinsonneault was elected in a by-election in April 1863.
4. ^ resigned his seat to accept an appointment as superintendent of Public Works; Louis-Siméon Morin was elected in a by-election in September 1861.
5. ^ died in 1861 without taking his seat; Joseph Dufresne was elected to the seat in a by-election in February 1862.
6. ^ election was declared invalid; Charles-François Painchaud was awarded the seat in May 1863.
7. ^ unseated in February 1863; John Scoble was awarded the seat.
8. ^ election declared invalid in March 1863; John O’Connor was declared elected.
9. ^ resigned to accept an appointment as judge in 1863; George Brown was elected in a by-election in March 1863.
10. ^ ^{a b} elected in both Perth & North Waterloo; Foley chose the Perth seat; when he was appointed to cabinet, he was forced to seek re-election and was elected in Waterloo North; Thomas Mayne Daly was elected in Perth in a by-election in 1862.

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

[edit] External links

• Ontario's parliament buildings ; or, A century of legislation, 1792-1892 : a historical sketch
• Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)