Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Chambre d'assemblée du Bas-Canada
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada ; Chambre d'assemblée du Bas-Canada
Type
Type	Lower house of the Parliament of Lower Canada
History
Founded	1791
Disbanded	1838
Preceded by	Council for Affairs of the Province of Quebec (c. 1774)
Succeeded by	Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (following the temporary Special Council of Lower Canada)

The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, in the Chapel of Bishop's Palace, Quebec City, oil on canvas by Charles Walter Simpson, 1927

The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. The lower house consisted of elected legislative councilors who created bills to be passed up to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, whose members were appointed by the governor general.

The lower house was dissolved on March 27, 1838, following the Lower Canada Rebellion and Lower Canada was administered by an appointed Special Council. With the Act of Union in 1840, a new lower chamber, the Legislative Assembly of Canada, was created for both Upper and Lower Canada which existed until 1867, when the Legislative Assembly of Quebec was created.

Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada[]

Jean-Antoine Panet 1792–1794
Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière 1794–1814
Louis-Joseph Papineau 1815–1822
Joseph-Remi Vallieres de Saint-Real 1823–1825
Louis-Joseph Papineau 1825–1841

Electoral Districts[]

From 1792 to 1829[]

Electoral District	# of Members	Status after electoral changes in 1829
	1	Renamed as Rouville.
	2	, , , and split off from Buckingham during elections in 1829. In 1830 what was left of Buckingham was split into , et .
	2	Divided into and .
	2	Renamed as L'Islet.
	2	was split from Dorchester.
	2	Renamed as Terrebonne.
	1	was separated from Gaspé.
	2	Renamed as Portneuf.
	2	Renamed as Bellechasse.
	2	Divided into , and .
	2	Renamed as Chambly.
	2	Divided into and .
	2	No changes
	2	No changes
	2	No changes
	2	Divided into and .
	1	No changes
	2	No changes
	2	No changes
	2	No changes
	2	split from Richelieu.
	2	split from Saint-Maurice.
	2	Renamed as Verchères.
	2	No changes
	2	Renamed as Berthier.
	1	No changes
	2	Divided into , and .

Buildings[]

See Old Parliament Building (Quebec)

External links[]

Journal of the House of Assembly of Lower-Canada (1793–1837). Québec: John Neilson.
Appendix to the Journals of the House of Assembly of the province of Lower-Canada (1810–1837). Québec: John Neilson.
Parliament of Canada (Montmorency Park)