3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada explained

The 3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in 1848, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in January 1848. The first session was held at Montreal, Canada East. In 1849, rioters protesting the Rebellion Losses Bill burned the parliament buildings. The remaining sessions were held in Toronto. The Parliament was dissolved on November 6, 1851.

During the 1849 session of this parliament, a number of important bills were passed:

In 1850, legislation was passed to regulate the operation of the postal service and to establish a post on the Executive Council for the Postmaster General for the Province of Canada.

The Speaker of this parliament was Augustin Norbert Morin.

Canada East - 42 seats

RidingMemberParty
BeauharnoisJacob De WittReformer
BellechasseAugustin-Norbert MorinPatriote
BerthierDavid Morrison ArmstrongPatriote
BonaventureWilliam CuthbertTory
ChamblyPierre Beaubien[1] Patriote
Louis Lacoste (1849)Reformer
ChamplainLouis GuilletPatriote
Deux-MontagnesWilliam Henry ScottReformer
DorchesterFrançois-Xavier LemieuxPatriote
DrummondRobert Nugent WattsConservative
GaspéRobert ChristieIndependent
HuntingdonTancrède SauvageauPatriote
KamouraskaPierre Canac[2] Patriote
Luc Letellier de St-Just (1851)Liberal
LeinsterNorbert DumasPatriote
L'IsletCharles-François FournierPatriote
LotbinièreJoseph LaurinPatriote
MéganticDominick Daly[3] Conservative
Dunbar Ross (1850)Reformer
MissisquoiWilliam BadgleyConservative
MontmorencyJoseph-Édouard CauchonPatriote
MontrealBenjamin HolmesReformer
MontrealLouis-Hippolyte LafontaineReformer
Montreal (county)André JobinReformer
NicoletThomas FortierPatriote
OttawaJohn EganReformer
PortneufÉdouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau DuchesnayReformer
Quebec CountyPierre-Joseph-Olivier ChauveauReformer
Quebec CityThomas Cushing Aylwin[4] Patriote
François-Xavier MéthotPatriote
Quebec CityJean ChabotConservative
RichelieuWolfred NelsonPatriote
RimouskiJoseph-Charles TachéPatriote
RouvillePierre DavignonPatriote
SaguenayMarc-Pascal de Sales LaterrièrePatriote
St. HyacintheThomas BoutillierReformer
Saint-MauriceLouis-Joseph PapineauPatriote
SheffordLewis Thomas DrummondConservative
SherbrookeBartholomew Conrad Augustus GugyConservative
Sherbrooke (county)Samuel Brooks[5] Conservative
Alexander Tilloch Galt (1849) [6] Independent
John Sewell Sanborn (1850)Liberal
StansteadJohn McConnellConservative
TerrebonneLouis-Michel VigerPatriote
Trois-RivièresAntoine Polette (1848) [7] Reformer
VaudreuilJean-Baptiste MongenaisPatriote
VerchèresJames Leslie[8] Patriote
George-Étienne Cartier (1848)Reformer
YamaskaMichel FourquinReformer

Canada West - 42 seats

RidingMemberParty
BrockvilleGeorge Sherwood
BytownJohn ScottConservative
CarletonEdward Malloch
CornwallJohn Hillyard CameronConservative
DundasJohn Pliny Crysler
DurhamJames Smith
EssexJohn Prince
FrontenacHenry Smith, JrConservative
GlengarryJohn Sandfield MacdonaldReformer
GrenvilleReed Burritt
HaldimandDavid Thompson[9] Reformer
William Lyon Mackenzie (1851)Reformer
East HaltonJohn Wetenhall [10] Reformer
Caleb Hopkins (1850)Clear Grit
HamiltonAllan Napier MacNabConservative
HastingsBilla FlintReformer
HuronWilliam CayleyConservative
KentMalcolm CameronReformer
KingstonJohn A. MacdonaldConservative
LanarkRobert BellReformer
LeedsWilliam Buell RichardsReformer
Lennox & AddingtonBenjamin SeymourConservative
LincolnWilliam Hamilton MerrittReformer
LondonJohn WilsonConservative
MiddlesexWilliam NotmanReformer
Niagara (town)Walter Hamilton Dickson
NorfolkHenry John BoultonReformer
NorthumberlandAdam H Meyers
OxfordFrancis HincksReformer
PeterboroughJames Hall
PrescottThomas H Johnston
Prince EdwardDavid Barker StevensonConservative
RussellGeorge Byron Lyon-Fellowes
SimcoeWilliam Benjamin RobinsonConservative
StormontAlexander McLean
TorontoWilliam Henry BoultonConservative
TorontoHenry SherwoodConservative
Waterloo[11] James Webster[12] Conservative
Adam Johnston Fergusson (1849)Reformer
Welland[13] Duncan McFarland
WentworthHarmannus Smith
East York[14] William Hume Blake[15] Reformer
Peter Perry (1850)Clear Grit
North York [16] Robert BaldwinReformer
South York [17] James Hervey PriceReformer
West York [18] Joseph Curran MorrisonReformer

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  1. resigned to accept a position; Louis Lacose was elected in a by-election in September 1849.
  2. died in 1850; Luc Letellier de Saint-Just was elected to the seat in February 1851.
  3. seat was declared vacant in 1849 after Daly was named to a commission of inquiry in England; Dunbar Ross was elected in a by-election held in March 1850.
  4. resigned his seat in 1848 to accept an appointment as judge; François-Xavier Méthot was elected in a by-election held in June 1848.
  5. died in March 1849; Alexander Tilloch Galt took the seat in April 1849.
  6. resigned in January 1850; John Sewell Sanborn was elected to the seat in March 1850.
  7. The general election in Trois-Rivières was not completed and Antoine Polette was elected in a by-election in April 1848.
  8. accepted an appointment; George-Étienne Cartier was elected to the seat in April 1848.
  9. died in 1851; William Lyon Mackenzie was elected in an April 1851 by-election.
  10. was required to seek reelection after being appointed to cabinet; Caleb Hopkins won his seat in a March 1850 by-election.
  11. formerly West Halton
  12. unseated on appeal; Adam Johnston Fergusson took the seat in February 1849.
  13. formerly South Lincoln
  14. formerly 3rd York
  15. resigned in 1849; Peter Perry was elected in a by-election.
  16. formerly 4th York
  17. formerly 1st York
  18. formerly 2nd York

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