8th Parliament of Lower Canada explained

The 8th Parliament of Lower Canada was in session from January 21, 1815, to February 29, 1816. Elections to the Legislative Assembly in Lower Canada had been held in March 1814. Colonial administrator Gordon Drummond dissolved the assembly in 1816 after it attempted to reintroduce charges against judges Jonathan Sewell and James Monk who had already been cleared of the same charges by the British Privy Council. All sessions were held at Quebec City.

RidingMember
BedfordHenry Georgen
BuckinghamshireFrançois Bellet
BuckinghamshireJames Stuart[1]
Louis Bourdages (1815)
CornwallisJoseph Le Vasseur Borgia
CornwallisJoseph Robitaille
DevonJoseph-François Couillard-Després
DevonFrançois Fournier
DorchesterJohn Davidson
DorchesterJean-Thomas Taschereau
EffinghamJoseph Malboeuf, dit Beausoleil
EffinghamSamuel Sherwood
GaspéGeorge Browne
HampshireGeorge Waters Allsopp
HampshireFrançois Huot
HertfordFrançois Blanchet
HertfordÉtienne-Ferréol Roy
HuntingdonMichael O'Sullivan
HuntingdonAustin Cuvillier
KentNoël Breux
KentJoseph Bresse
LeinsterJacques Trullier, dit Lacombe[2]
Michel Prévost (1815)
LeinsterDenis-Benjamin Viger
Montreal CountyJames Stuart
Montreal CountyAugustin Richer
Montreal EastJacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu
Montreal EastGeorge Platt
Montreal WestLouis-Joseph Papineau
Montreal WestJames Fraser
NorthumberlandÉtienne-Claude Lagueux
NorthumberlandThomas Lee
OrléansCharles Blouin
Quebec CountyLouis Gauvreau
Quebec CountyPierre Brehaut
Quebec (Lower Town)Pierre Bruneau
Quebec (Lower Town)Andrew Stuart
Quebec (Upper Town)Claude Dénéchau
Quebec (Upper Town)Jean-Antoine Panet[3]
George Vanfelson (1815)
RichelieuSéraphin Cherrier (1815) [4]
RichelieuFrançois-Xavier Malhiot (1815)
Saint-MauriceJoseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal
Saint-MauriceÉtienne Le Blanc
SurreyPierre Amiot
SurreyÉtienne Duchesnois
Trois-RivièresCharles Richard Ogden
Trois-RivièresAmable Berthelot
WarwickJacques Deligny
WarwickRoss Cuthbert
William-HenryRobert Jones
YorkNicolas-Eustache Lambert Dumont
YorkWilliam Forbes[5]
Jean-Baptiste Ferré (1815)

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Notes and References

  1. was elected in both Montreal County and Buckinghamshire; he chose to sit in the former and Louis Bourdages was elected in the latter in a by-election held in March 1815.
  2. election was declared invalid; Michel Prévost was elected in a by-election held in June 1815.
  3. named to the Legislative Council in January 1815; George Vanfelson was elected in a by-election held in February 1815.
  4. the 1814 election was declared invalid; a by-election was held in March 1815
  5. died in November 1814; Jean-Baptiste Ferré was elected in a by-election held in March 1815.

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