45th General Assembly of Nova Scotia explained

The 45th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between February 24, 1954, and September 10, 1956.

Division of seats

There were 37 members of the General Assembly, elected in the 1953 Nova Scotia general election.

	Leader	Party	of Seats	Angus L. Macdonald	Liberal	22	Robert L. Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	13	Russell Cunningham	CCF	2
Total			37

List of members

	Riding	Name	Position	Annapolis County	Henry Davies Hicks	Minister of Education Premier (1954)	Antigonish	Colin H. Chisholm		Cape Breton South	John Smith MacIvor	speaker	Cape Breton Centre	Michael MacDonald		Cape Breton North	Alexander O'Handley		Cape Breton East	Russell Cunningham		Cape Breton West	Malcolm A. Patterson	Attorney general	Clare	Pierre E. Belliveau		Colchester	Robert L. Stanfield			G. I. Smith		Cumberland East	James A. Langille		Cumberland West	Allison T. Smith		Cumberland Centre	Stephen T. Pyke		Digby	Victor George Cardoza		Guysborough	Arthur Whittier MacKenzie		Halifax South	Angus L. MacDonald	Premier	Halifax Centre	James Edward Rutledge		Halifax North	Harold Connolly	Minister of Public Health acting Premier (1954)	Halifax East	Geoffrey W. Stevens		Halifax West	Ronald Manning Fielding		Hants East	Alfred E. Reid		Hants West	George H. Wilson		Inverness	Alexander H. McKinnon			Roderick MacLean		Kings	Edward Haliburton			George Arthur Boggs		Lunenburg	Harley J. Spence			R. Clifford Levy		Pictou East	John W. MacDonald		Pictou West	Stewart W. Proudfoot		Pictou Centre	Alfred B. DeWolfe		Queens	W. S. Kennedy Jones		Richmond	Earl Wallace Urquhart		Shelburne	Wilfred Tennyson Dauphinee		Victoria	Carleton L. MacMillan		Yarmouth	William H. Brown			Raymond Z. Bourque

Former members of the 45th General Assembly

	Name	Party	Electoral District	Cause of departure	Succeeded by	Elected	Angus L. MacDonald	Liberal	Halifax South	died	Richard A.Donahoe, PC	November 14, 1954	Alexander H. McKinnon	Liberal	Inverness	named judge	Joseph Clyde Nunn, Liberal	November 14, 1954

References

• Web site: Summary Results from 1867 to 2011. Elections Nova Scotia. 2011. 2015-04-28.