The 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in August 1863, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in August 1863. The Parliament was abolished when the British North America Act, 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867) came into force on July 1, 1867, creating the new country of Canada.
The first session of this Parliament sat from 13 August 1863 to 15 October 1863.[1] Sessions were held in Quebec City until the fourth session 8 August 1865 to 18 September 1865.[2] The fifth and last session was held in Ottawa in the newly completed Parliament building 8 June 1866 to 15 August 1866.[3]
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was Lewis Wallbridge.
This was also the last session of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. Following Confederation in the following year, it was succeeded by 1st Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Toronto, the 1st Quebec Legislature, and the 1st Canadian Parliament in Ottawa.
Most members went on to become elected in the Canadian House of Commons, while other served at provincial level, appointed to the Senate of Canada, provincial Lieutenant Governor, government posts or simply retired from politics altogether.
Riding | Member | Party | |
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East Brant | John Young Bown | Liberal-Conservative | |
West Brant | Edmund Burke Wood | Reformer | |
Brockville | Fitzwilliam Henry Chambers | Reformer | |
Carleton | William F. Powell | Conservative | |
Cornwall | John Sandfield Macdonald | Reformer | |
Dundas | John Sylvester Ross | Conservative | |
East Durham | John Shuter Smith | Reformer | |
West Durham | Henry Munro | Reformer | |
East Elgin | Leonidas Burwell | Reformer | |
West Elgin | John Scoble | Reform | |
Essex | Arthur Rankin | Reformer | |
Frontenac | William Ferguson | Conservative | |
Glengarry | Donald Alexander Macdonald | Reformer | |
Grenville | Walter Shanly | Liberal-Conservative | |
Grey | George Jackson | Conservative | |
Haldimand | David Thompson | Reformer | |
Halton | John White | Reformer | |
Hamilton | Isaac Buchanan[8] | Conservative | |
Charles Magill (1866) | Liberal | ||
North Hastings | Thomas Campbell Wallbridge | Reformer | |
South Hastings | Lewis Wallbridge | Reformer | |
Huron & Bruce | James Dickson | Reformer | |
Kent | Archibald McKellar | Reformer | |
Kingston | John A. Macdonald | Liberal-Conservative | |
Lambton | Alexander Mackenzie | Reformer | |
North Lanark | Robert Bell[9] | Reformer | |
William McDougall (1864) | Reformer | ||
South Lanark | Alexander Morris | Conservative | |
North Leeds & Grenville | Francis Jones | Reformer | |
South Leeds | Albert Norton Richards[10] | Reformer | |
David Ford Jones (1864) | |||
Lennox & Addington | Richard John Cartwright | Conservative | |
Lincoln | William McGiverin | Reformer | |
London | John Carling | Liberal-Conservative | |
East Middlesex | Crowell Willson | Reformer | |
West Middlesex | Thomas Scatcherd | Reformer | |
Niagara (town) | John Simpson[11] | Conservative | |
Angus Morrison (1864) | Reformer | ||
Norfolk | Aquila Walsh | Conservative | |
East Northumberland | James Lyons Biggar | Reformer | |
West Northumberland | James Cockburn | Liberal-Conservative | |
North Ontario | William McDougall[12] | Reformer | |
Matthew Crooks Cameron (1864) | Conservative | ||
South Ontario | Oliver Mowat[13] | Reformer | |
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs (1864) | Reformer | ||
Ottawa | Joseph Merrill Currier | Conservative | |
North Oxford | Hope Fleming Mackenzie[14] | Reformer | |
Thomas Oliver (1866) | Reformer | ||
South Oxford | George Brown | Reformer | |
Peel | John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative | |
Perth | Robert MacFarlane | Reformer | |
Peterborough | Wilson Seymour Conger[15] | Independent | |
Frederick W. Haultain (1864) | Conservative | ||
Prescott | Thomas Higginson | Conservative | |
Prince Edward | Walter Ross | Reformer | |
Renfrew | Robert McIntyre | Reformer | |
Russell | Robert Bell | Conservative | |
North Simcoe | Thomas David McConkey | Reformer | |
South Simcoe | Thomas Roberts Ferguson | Conservative | |
Stormont | Samuel Ault | Reformer | |
East Toronto | Alexander Mortimer Smith | Reformer | |
West Toronto | John Macdonald | Reformer | |
Victoria | James W Dunsford | Reformer | |
North Waterloo | Michael Hamilton Foley[16] | Reformer | |
Isaac Erb Bowman (1864) | Reformer | ||
South Waterloo | James Cowan | Reformer | |
Welland | Thomas Clark Street | Conservative | |
North Wellington | Thomas Sutherland Parker | Reformer | |
South Wellington | David Stirton | Reformer | |
North Wentworth | William Notman | Reformer | |
James McMonies (1865) | Reformer | ||
South Wentworth | Joseph Rymal | Reformer | |
East York | Amos Wright | Reformer | |
North York | James Pearson Wells | Reform | |
West York | William Pearce Howland | Reformer |