5th Quebec Legislature

The 5th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from December 2, 1881, to October 14, 1886. The Quebec Conservative Party led Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Joseph-Alfred Mousseau and John Jones Ross was the governing party. Chapleau was succeeded by Mousseau in 1882 while Ross succeeded Mousseau in 1884. It was the Conservatives last majority government.

The sixty-five members were each elected in a single-member district through First past the post.

Seats per political party

Affiliation Members
Conservative 50
  Liberal/Parti national 14
  Conservative Independent 1
 Total
 65
 Government Majority
 36

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1881 election:

Name Party Riding First elected / previously elected No. of terms
  William Owens Conservative Argenteuil 1881 1st term
  Antoine Casavant Conservative Bagot 1881 1st term
  Jean Blanchet Conservative Beauce 1881 1st term
  Célestin Bergevin Conservative Beauharnois 1867, 1878 3rd term*
  Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice Conservative Bellechasse 1881 1st term
  Joseph Robillard Conservative Berthier 1878 2nd term
  Louis-Joseph Riopel Conservative Bonaventure 1881 1st term
  Henri-Josué Martin (1882) Conservative 1882 1st term
  William Warren Lynch Conservative Brome 1871 4th term
  Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel Conservative Chambly 1878, 1881 2nd term*
  Robert Trudel Conservative Champlain 1881 1st term
  Onésime Gauthier Conservative Charlevoix 1875 3rd term
  Édouard Laberge Liberal Châteauguay 1867 5th term
  Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1884) Liberal 1884 1st term
  Élie Saint-Hilaire Conservative Independent Chicoutimi et Saguenay 1881 1st term
  William Sawyer Conservative Compton 1871 4th term
  Charles Champagne Conservative Deux-Montagnes 1876 3rd term
  Benjamin Beauchamp (1882) Conservative 1882 1st term
  Nicodème Audet Conservative Dorchester 1878 2nd term
  William John Watts Liberal Drummond et Arthabaska 1874 4th term
  Joseph-Éna Girouard (1886) Liberal 1886 1st term
  Edmund James Flynn Conservative Gaspé 1878 2nd term
  Louis Beaubien Conservative Hochelaga 1867 5th term
  Alexander Cameron Liberal Huntingdon 1874 4th term
  Alexis-Louis Demers Liberal Iberville 1881 1st term
  Charles Marcotte Conservative Islet 1881 1st term
  Narcisse Lecavalier Conservative Jacques Cartier 1867 5th term
  Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (1882) Conservative 1882 1st term
  Arthur Boyer (1884) Liberal 1884 1st term
  Vincent-Paul Lavallée Conservative Joliette 1867 5th term
  Alfred McConville (1885) Conservative 1885 1st term
  Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon Liberal Kamouraska 1878 2nd term
  Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois Conservative Laprairie 1875 3rd term
  Joseph Marion Conservative L'Assomption 1880 2nd term
  Louis-Onésime Loranger Conservative Laval 1875 3rd term
  Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1882) Conservative 1882 1st term
  Amédée Gaboury (1883) Liberal 1883 1st term
  Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1884) Conservative 1882, 1884 2nd term*
  Étienne-Théodore Pâquet Conservative Lévis 1875 3rd term
  François-Xavier Lemieux (1883) Liberal 1883 1st term
  Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière Liberal Lotbinière 1867 5th term
  Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté (1886) Liberal 1886 1st term
  Édouard Caron Conservative Maskinongé 1878 2nd term
  George Irvine Liberal Mégantic 1867, 1878 5th term*
  John Whyte (1884) Liberal 1884 1st term
  Elijah Edmund Spencer Conservative Missisquoi 1881 1st term
  Jean-Baptiste-Trefflé Richard Conservative Montcalm 1881 1st term
  Louis-Napoléon Fortin Liberal Montmagny 1876 3rd term
  Nazaire Bernatchez (1883) Independent Liberal 1883 1st term
  Louis-Georges Desjardins Conservative Montmorency 1881 1st term
  George Washington Stephens Sr. Liberal Montréal Centre 1881 1st term
  Louis-Olivier Taillon Conservative Montréal Est 1875 3rd term
  James McShane Liberal Montreal Ouest 1878 2nd term
  François-Xavier Paradis Conservative Napierville 1881 1st term
  Charles-Édouard Houde Conservative Nicolet 1876 3rd term
  Louis-Trefflé Dorais (1883) Independent Conservative 1883 1st term
  Louis Duhamel Conservative Ottawa (Outaouais) 1875 3rd term
  Thomas Bryson Conservative Pontiac 1881 1st term
  William Joseph Poupore (1882) Conservative 1882 1st term
  Jean-Docile Brousseau Conservative Portneuf 1881 1st term
  Pierre Garneau Conservative Québec-Comté 1873, 1881 3rd term*
  Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin Liberal Québec-Centre 1874 4th term
  Joseph Shehyn Liberal Québec-Est 1875 3rd term
  Félix Carbray Conservative Québec-Ouest 1881 1st term
  Léon Leduc Conservative Richelieu 1881 1st term
  Jacques Picard Conservative Richmond et Wolfe 1867 5th term
  Louis-Napoléon Asselin Conservative Rimouski 1881 1st term
  Étienne Poulin Conservative Rouville 1881 1st term
  Honoré Mercier Liberal St. Hyacinthe 1879 2nd term
  Félix-Gabriel Marchand Liberal St. Jean 1867 5th term
  François-Sévère Desaulniers Conservative St. Maurice 1878 2nd term
  Isidore Frégeau Conservative Shefford 1881 1st term
  Joseph Gibb Robertson Conservative Sherbrooke 1867 5th term
  William Duckett Conservative Soulanges 1878 2nd term
  John Thornton Conservative Stanstead 1875, 1881 2nd term*
  Georges-Honoré Deschênes Conservative Témiscouata 1875 3rd term
  Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau Conservative Terrebonne 1867 5th term
  Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1882) Conservative 1882 1st term
  Sévère Dumoulin Conservative Trois-Rivières 1868, 1881 2nd term*
  Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte (1886) Independent Conservative 1876, 1886 3rd term*
  Émery Lalonde, Sr. Conservative Vaudreuil 1871 4th term
  François-Xavier Archambault (1882) Conservative 1882 1st term
  Alfred Lapointe (1884) Conservative 1884 1st term
  Abraham Bernard Liberal Verchères 1881 1st term
  Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele Conservative Yamaska 1875 3rd term

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

Cabinet Ministers

Chapleau Cabinet (1881–1882)

  • Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
  • Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), Elisée Dionne (1882)
  • Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
  • Railroad: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), William Warren Lych (1882)
  • Attorney General: Louis-Onésime Loranger
  • Secretary and Registry: Etienne-Théodore Pâquet
  • Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson (1881–1882), Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele (1882)
  • Solicitor General: William Warren Lynch
  • Legislative Council President: John Jones Ross

Mousseau Cabinet (1882–1884)

  • Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
  • Agriculture and public works: Elisée Dionne
  • Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
  • Railroad: Henry Starnes
  • Attorney General: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
  • Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
  • Treasurer: Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele

Ross Cabinet (1884–1886)

  • Prime Minister and Executive Council President: John Jones Ross
  • Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross
  • Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
  • Railroad: Edmund James Flynn
  • Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
  • Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
  • Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
  • Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn (1885–1886)

Notes

  1. 1 2 First Elected as a Liberal

References

  1. ↑ "Élections par circonscription Pontiac". www.quebecpolitique.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  2. ↑ "Élections par circonscription Terrebonne". www.quebecpolitique.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2007-02-09.
  3. ↑ "Élections par circonscription Jacques-Cartier". www.quebecpolitique.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  4. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Deux-Montagnes". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  5. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Laval". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  6. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Laval". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  7. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Vaudreuil". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  8. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Bonaventure". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  9. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Nicolet". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  10. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Laval". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  11. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Lévis". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  12. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Châteauguay". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-10.
  13. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Jacques-Cartier". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  14. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Trois-Rivières". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  15. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Vaudreuil". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  16. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Mégantic". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  17. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Joliette". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  18. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Lotbinière". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  19. ↑ "QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Drummond et Arthabaska". www.quebecpolitique.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26.
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