Trois-Rivières (Province of Canada)

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Trois-Rivières
Province of Canada electoral district
Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
District created 1841
District abolished 1867
First contested 1841
Last contested 1865

Under the Union regime (1841–1867), the district of Trois-Rivières was re-established. Its boundaries roughly covered the pre-merger city of Trois-Rivières.[1]

Trois-Rivières was represented by one Member at the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

Members for Trois-Rivières (1841-1867)

  Name Party Election [2]
     Charles Richard Ogden [3] Tory Party 1841
     Edward Greive [4] Tory Party 1844
     Joseph-Édouard Turcotte [5] Moderate Reformer 1845
  None[6] N/A 1848
     Antoine Polette Moderate Reformer 1848
     Antoine Polette Moderate Reformer 1851
     Antoine Polette Parti bleu 1854
     William McDonell Dawson[7] Tory Party 1858
     Joseph-Édouard Turcotte Parti bleu 1861
     Joseph-Édouard Turcotte [8] Parti bleu 1863
     Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville Parti bleu 1865

Footnotes

  1. ↑ History of the electoral map of Québec, Chief Electoral Officer of Québec.
  2. ↑ By-elections are indicated with Italic font.
  3. ↑ Ogden was a Cabinet Member in 1841 and 1842.
  4. ↑ Greive died in office in 1845.
  5. ↑ Turcotte ran in the district of St. Maurice in 1848 and lost.
  6. ↑ The election was not held.
  7. ↑ In 1861, Dawson was defeated in the district of Trois-Rivières, but was election in the district of Ottawa.
  8. ↑ Turcotte died in office in 1864.

See also

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