Glengarry (Province of Canada electoral district)
Province of Canada electoral district | |
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Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada |
District created | 1841 |
District abolished | 1867 |
First contested | 1841 |
Last contested | 1863 |
Glengarry was an electoral district of the
Boundaries
Glengarry electoral district was located in
The Union Act, 1840 had merged the two provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished.[1] The Union Act provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new Parliament, unless altered by the Union Act itself.[2]
Glengarry County had been an electoral district in the
The boundaries had been further defined by a statute of Upper Canada in 1798:
Since Glengarry electoral district was not changed by the Union Act, those boundaries continued to be used for the new electoral district. Glengarry was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.[2]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Glengarry was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.[2] The following were the members for Glengarry.
Parliament | Years | Member[6] | Party[7] | |
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1st Parliament 1841–1844 |
1841–1844 | John Sandfield Macdonald | Moderate Tory, then Reformer |
Abolition
The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the
References
- ^ Union Act, 1840, 3 & 4 Vict., c. 35, s. 2.
- ^ a b c Union Act, 1840, s. 16.
- ^ Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, from the eighth day of November, 1836, to the fourth day of March, 1837, p. 15 (November 8, 1836).
- ^ Proclamation, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, July 16, 1792; reprinted in Statutes of the Province of Upper Canada; Together with Such British Statutes, Ordinances of Quebec, and Proclamations, as Relate to the Said Province (Kingston: F. M. Hill., 1831) p. 24.
- ^ An act for the Better Division of this Province, SUC 1798, c. 5, s. 1. Reprinted in The Statutes of Upper Canada to the Time of Union, Revised and Published by Authority, Vol. I - Public Acts (Toronto: Robert Stanton, Queen's Printer, 1843).
- ^ J.O. Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860, (Quebec: St. Michel and Darveau, 1860), pp. 43-58.
- ^ For party affiliations, see Paul G. Cornell, Alignment of Political Groups in Canada, 1841-67 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962; reprinted in paperback 2015), pp. 93-111.
- ^ British North America Act, 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867), s. 6.
- ^ Constitution Act, 1867, s. 40, para. 2
- ^ Constitution Act, 1867, s. 70.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Proclamation, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, July 16, 1792
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: An act for the better division of this province, SUC 1798, c. 5..