6th Parliament of Lower Canada
The 6th Parliament of Lower Canada was in session from January 29, 1810, to March 1, 1810. Elections to the Legislative Assembly in Lower Canada had been held in October 1809. Lieutenant-governor James Henry Craig dissolved parliament after the assembly declared the seat of judge Pierre-Amable de Bonne vacant. A vote on the resolution which declared judges ineligible to sit in the assembly had been deferred by the Legislative Council until after the next election. All sessions were held at Quebec City.
Members
| Riding | Member | First elected / previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford | John Jones | 1809 | |
| Buckinghamshire | François Legendre | 1809 | |
| Buckinghamshire | Jean-Baptiste Hébert | 1808 | |
| Cornwallis | Joseph Le Vasseur Borgia | 1808 | |
| Cornwallis | Joseph Robitaille | 1808 | |
| Devon | Jean-Baptiste Fortin | 1804 | |
| Devon | François Bernier | 1796 | |
| Dorchester | Pierre Langlois | 1808 | |
| Dorchester | Jean-Thomas Taschereau[a] | 1800, 1808 | |
| Effingham | Joseph Duclos | 1808 | |
| Effingham | Joseph Meunier | 1808 | |
| Gaspé | George Pyke | 1804 | |
| Hampshire | Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay | 1804 | |
| Hampshire | François Huot | 1796, 1808 | |
| Hertford | François Blanchet | 1809 | |
| Hertford | Étienne-Ferréol Roy | 1804 | |
| Huntingdon | Jean-Antoine Panet | 1792,[b] 1808 | |
| Huntingdon | Stephen Sewell | 1809 | |
| Kent | Louis-Joseph Papineau | 1808 | |
| Kent | Pierre-Dominique Debartzch | 1809 | |
| Leinster | Jean-Thomas Taschereau[a] | 1800, 1808 | |
| Leinster | Bonaventure Panet | 1792, 1809 | |
| Montreal County | Jean-Baptiste Durocher | 1792,[c] 1808 | |
| Montreal County | Louis Roy Portelance | 1804 | |
| Montreal East | James Stuart | 1808 | |
| Montreal East | Joseph Papineau | 1792, 1809 | |
| Montreal West | Thomas McCord | 1809 | |
| Montreal West | Denis-Benjamin Viger | 1808 | |
| Northumberland | Joseph Drapeau | 1809 | |
| Northumberland | Thomas Lee | 1809 | |
| Orléans | Jérôme Martineau[d] | 1796 | |
| Quebec County | Pierre-Amable de Bonne[e] | 1792 | |
| Quebec County | Ralph Gray | 1809 | |
| Quebec (Lower Town) | John Jones | 1808 | |
| Quebec (Lower Town) | Pierre-Stanislas Bédard | 1792 | |
| Quebec (Upper Town) | Claude Dénéchau | 1808 | |
| Quebec (Upper Town) | John Blackwood | 1805 | |
| Richelieu | Louis Bourdages | 1804 | |
| Richelieu | Hyacinthe-Marie Simon, dit Delorme | 1808 | |
| Saint-Maurice | Louis Gugy | 1809 | |
| Saint-Maurice | Michel Caron | 1804 | |
| Surrey | Pierre-Stanislas Bédard[f] | 1792 | |
| Surrey | Joseph Beauchamp | 1809 | |
| Trois-Rivières | Joseph Badeaux | 1808 | |
| Trois-Rivières | Mathew Bell | 1809 | |
| Warwick | Ross Cuthbert | 1800 | |
| Warwick | James Cuthbert | 1796 | |
| William-Henry | Edward Bowen | 1809 | |
| York | Pierre Saint-Julien | 1809 | |
| York | John Mure | 1804 |
Notes
- 1 2 Jean-Thomas Taschereau was elected in both Dorchester and Leinster; he had not chosen which he would represent before the assembly was dissolved
- ↑ Quebec (Upper Town)
- ↑ Montreal West
- ↑ died in December 1809
- ↑ expelled in February 1810
- ↑ also elected in Quebec (Lower Town) and chose to represent that riding
References
External links
- Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)
- Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada ... Quebec: John Neilson. 1810.