5th_Parliament_of_the_Province_of_Canada

5th Parliament of the Province of Canada

5th Parliament of the Province of Canada

Parliament of the former Province of Canada

The 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in August 1854, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in July 1854. The number of seats in the Assembly had been increased by the 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada to 130, 65 for each section. Sessions were held in Quebec City until 1856 and then in Toronto. The Parliament was dissolved in November 1857.

In 1854 and 1855, 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, the first auditor general and the Audit Board, a new government department, which reviewed the public accounts.

The Speaker of this parliament was Louis-Victor Sicotte.

Canada East - 65 seats

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Canada West - 65 seats

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References

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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.
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    resigned for health reasons in January 1855; David Edward Price was elected in a by-election held in April 1855.
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    formerly Montreal (county)
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    formerly Leinster
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    died in July 1857; George Bryson was elected in a by-election in October 1857.
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    resigned his seat to accept an appointment; François Évanturel was elected in a by-election in August 1855.
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    resigned to accept an appointment as judge; Georges-Honoré Simard was elected in a by-election in October 1856.
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    resigned due to ill health in 1857; George Okill Stuart was elected in a by-election in April 1857.
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    resigned his seat in 1857; Michel Guillaume Baby was elected in a by-election in February 1857.
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    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.
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    resigned his seat in 1857 to allow Louis-Siméon Morin to be elected.
  12. [12]
    David Christie appealed the election of Daniel McKerlie and was declared elected in March 1855.
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    resigned; George Benjamin was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1856.
  14. [14]
    Francis Hincks, elected in both South Oxford & Renfrew, chose to sit for Renfrew; Ephraim Cook elected in October 1854
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    formerly West York
  16. [16]
    resigned his seat to become auditor general; Wilson Seymour Conger was elected in a by-election held in 1856.
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    resigned his seat in November 1855; John Supple was elected in a by-election in the following year.
  • George Emery, Elections in Oxford County 1838-1875, University of Toronto Press (2011)
  • Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)
  • Côté, George Oliver (1860). Political appointments and elections in the province of Canada. 1841 to 1860. St. Michael & Darveau.
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