5th Quebec Legislature explained

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

• After the 1881 elections

Affiliation		Members
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
William Owens	Conservative	Argenteuil
Antoine Casavant	Conservative
Jean Blanchet	Conservative
Célestin Bergevin	Conservative	Beauharnois
Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice	Conservative	Bellechasse
Joseph Robillard	Conservative
Louis-Joseph Riopel	Conservative	Bonaventure
William Warren Lynch	Conservative	Brome
Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel	Conservative
Robert Trudel	Conservative
Onésime Gauthier	Conservative
Édouard Laberge	Liberal
Élie Saint-Hilaire	Conservative Independent
William Sawyer	Conservative
Charles Champagne	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes
Nicodème Audet	Conservative	Dorchester
William John Watts	Liberal
Edmund James Flynn	Conservative
Louis Beaubien	Conservative	Hochelaga
Alexander Cameron	Liberal	Huntingdon
Alexis-Louis Demers	Liberal	Iberville
Charles Marcotte	Conservative	Islet
Narcisse Lecavalier	Conservative
Vincent-Paul Lavallée	Conservative
Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon	Liberal
Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois	Conservative	Laprairie
Joseph Marion	Conservative
Louis-Onésime Loranger	Conservative	Laval
Étienne-Théodore Pâquet	Conservative	Lévis
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal
Édouard Caron	Conservative
George Irvine	Liberal
Elijah Edmund Spencer	Conservative	Missisquoi
Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard	Conservative	Montcalm
Louis-Napoléon Fortin	Liberal	Montmagny
Louis-Georges Desjardins	Conservative
George Washington Stephens Sr.	Liberal
Louis-Olivier Taillon	Conservative
James McShane	Liberal	Montreal Ouest
François-Xavier Paradis	Conservative	Napierville
Charles-Édouard Houde	Conservative
Louis Duhamel	Conservative	Ottawa (Outaouais)
Thomas Bryson	Conservative
Jean-Docile Brousseau	Conservative	Portneuf
Pierre Garneau	Conservative
Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin	Liberal
Joseph Shehyn	Liberal
Félix Carbray	Conservative
Léon Leduc	Conservative
Jacques Picard	Conservative	Richmond et Wolfe
Louis-Napoléon Asselin	Conservative
Étienne Poulin	Conservative
Honoré Mercier	Liberal
Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Liberal	St. Jean
François-Sévère Desaulniers	Conservative
Isidore Frégeau	Conservative
Joseph Gibb Robertson	Conservative
William Duckett	Conservative	Soulanges
John Thornton	Conservative
Georges-Honoré Deschênes	Conservative	Témiscouata
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	Conservative
Sévère Dumoulin	Conservative
Émery Lalonde, Sr.	Conservative
Abraham Bernard	Liberal	Verchères
Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele	Conservative

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

• William Joseph Poupore, Quebec Conservative Party, Pontiac, March 6, 1882^[1]
• Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Quebec Conservative Party, Terrebonne, August 19, 1882^[2]
• Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Quebec Conservative Party, Jacques Cartier, August 26, 1882^[3]
• Benjamin Beauchamp, Quebec Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, October 21, 1882 ^[4]
• Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, Quebec Conservative Party, Laval, October 30, 1882 ^[5] & July 14, 1884 ^[6]
• François-Xavier Archambault, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, October 30, 1882 ^[7]
• Henri-Josué Martin, Quebec Conservative Party, Bonaventure, October 31, 1882 ^[8]
• Louis-Tréfflé Dorais, Conservative Independent, Nicolet, February 5, 1883 ^[9]
• Amédée Gaboury, Quebec Liberal Party, Laval, June 13, 1883 ^[10]
• François-Xavier Lemieux, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, November 16, 1883 ^[11]
• Joseph-Émery Robidoux, Quebec Liberal Party, Châteauguay, March 26, 1884 ^[12]
• Arthur Boyer, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques Cartier, March 26, 1884 ^[13]
• Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte, Conservative Independent, Trois-Rivières, March 26, 1884 ^[14]
• Alfred Lapointe, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, June 19, 1884 ^[15]
• John Whyte, Quebec Liberal Party, Mégantic, October 29, 1884 ^[16]
• Alfred McConville, Quebec Conservative Party, Joliette, September 25, 1885 ^[17]
• Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté, Quebec Liberal Party, Lotbinière, January 30, 1886 ^[18]
• Joseph-Éna Girouard, Quebec Liberal Party, Drummond et Arthabaska, March 24, 1886 ^[19]

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)

References

• 1881 election results
• List of historical Cabinet Ministers

Notes

1. Web site: Élections par circonscription Pontiac . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208213136/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-pontiac.html . 2007-02-08 . fr.
2. Web site: Élections par circonscription Terrebonne . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070209184408/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-terrebonne.html . 2007-02-09 . fr.
3. Web site: Élections par circonscription Jacques-Cartier . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208213538/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-jacques-cartier.html . 2007-02-08 . fr.
4. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Deux-Montagnes . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208174327/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-deux-montagnes.html . 2007-02-08.
5. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Laval . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208123651/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-laval.html . 2007-02-08.
6. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Laval . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208123651/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-laval.html . 2007-02-08.
7. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Vaudreuil . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208213116/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-vaudreuil.html . 2007-02-08.
8. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Bonaventure . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208123750/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-bonaventure.html . 2007-02-08.
9. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Nicolet . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208173959/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-nicolet.html . 2007-02-08.
10. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Laval . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208123651/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-laval.html . 2007-02-08.
11. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Lévis . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208123632/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-levis.html . 2007-02-08.
12. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Châteauguay . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070210112052/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-chateauguay.html . 2007-02-10.
13. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Jacques-Cartier . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208213538/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-jacques-cartier.html . 2007-02-08.
14. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Trois-Rivières . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208123922/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-trois-rivieres.html . 2007-02-08.
15. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Vaudreuil . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208213116/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-vaudreuil.html . 2007-02-08.
16. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Mégantic . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208174200/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-megantic.html . 2007-02-08.
17. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Joliette . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208212858/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-joliette.html . 2007-02-08.
18. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Lotbinière . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208173829/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-lotbiniere.html . 2007-02-08.
19. Web site: QuébecPolitique.com | Élections dans Drummond et Arthabaska . www.quebecpolitique.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926231247/http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-drummond-et-arthabaska.html . 2007-09-26.