16th Quebec Legislature

The 16th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from February 5, 1923, to May 16, 1927. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the governing party.

Seats per political party

After the 1923 elections

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Affiliation		Members
Parti libéral du Québec	63
Conservative Party	20
Parti ouvrier	1
Liberal Independent	1
Total		85
Government Majority		43

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1923 election:

	Name	Party
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Libéral	Abitibi
John Hay	Libéral	Argenteuil
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Libéral	Arthabaska
Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Libéral	Bagot
Joseph-Hugues Fortier	Libéral	Beauce
Arthur Plante	Conservative	Beauharnois
Antonin Galipeault	Libéral	Bellechasse
Siméon Lafrenière	Libéral	Berthier
Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud	Libéral	Bonaventure
William Robert Oliver	Libéral	Brome
Alexandre Thurber	Libéral	Chambly
Bruno Bordeleau	Libéral	Champlain
Philippe Dufour	Libéral	Charlevoix et Saguenay
Honoré Mercier Jr.	Libéral	Châteauguay
Gustave Delisle	Libéral	Chicoutimi
Jacob Nicol	Libéral	Compton
Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes
Ernest Ouellet	Libéral	Dorchester
Hector Laferté	Libéral	Drummond
Cyrille Baillargeon	Libéral	Frontenac
Gustave Lemieux	Libéral	Gaspé
Joseph-Roméo Lafond	Libéral	Hull
Andrew Philps	Libéral	Huntingdon
Lucien Lamoureux	Libéral	Iberville
Joseph-Édouard Caron	Libéral	Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Ésioff-Léon Patenaude	Conservative	Jacques-Cartier
Pierre-Joseph Dufresne	Conservative	Joliette
Nérée Morin	Libéral	Kamouraska
Pierre Lortie	Libéral	Labelle
Émile Moreau	Libéral	Lac-Saint-Jean
Walter Reed	Libéral	L'Assomption
Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr.	Conservative	Laval
Alfred-Valère Roy	Libéral	Lévis
Élisée Thériault	Libéral	L'Islet
Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Libéral	Lotbinière
Jean-Marie Pellerin	Conservative	Maisonneuve
Rodolphe Tourville	Libéral	Maskinongé
Joseph-Arthur Bergeron	Libéral	Matane
Joseph Dufour	Libéral	Matapédia
Lauréat Lapierre	Libéral	Mégantic
Alexandre Saurette	Libéral	Missisquoi
Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel	Libéral	Montcalm
Charles-Abraham Paquet	Libéral	Montmagny
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Libéral	Montmorency
Ernest Tétreau	Liberal Independent	Montréal-Dorion
Alfred Duranleau	Conservative	Montréal-Laurier
Adolphe L'Archevêque	Conservative	Montréal-Mercier
William James Hushion	Libéral	Montréal–Sainte-Anne
Camillien Houde	Conservative	Montréal–Sainte-Marie
Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges
Joseph Allan Bray	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Henri
Eusèbe Beaudoin	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Jacques
Ernest Walter Sayer	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Laurent
Peter Bercovitch	Libéral	Montréal–Saint-Louis
Pierre-Auguste Lafleur	Conservative	Montréal-Verdun
Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau	Libéral	Napierville-Laprairie
Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Libéral	Nicolet
Désiré Lahaie	Libéral	Papineau
Wallace Reginald McDonald	Libéral	Pontiac
Édouard Hamel	Libéral	Portneuf
Aurèle Leclerc	Libéral	Québec-Comté
Pierre-Vincent Faucher	Conservative	Québec-Centre
Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Libéral	Québec-Est
Martin Madden	Libéral	Québec-Ouest
Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière	Libéral	Richelieu
Georges-Ervé Denault	Libéral	Richmond
Louis-Joseph Moreault	Libéral	Rimouski
Cyril-Améric Bernard	Libéral	Rouville
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Libéral	Saint-Hyacinthe
Alexis Bouthillier	Libéral	Saint-Jean
Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard	Libéral	Saint-Maurice
Pierre Bertrand	Parti ouvrier	Saint-Sauveur
William Stephen Bullock	Libéral	Shefford
Moïse O'Bready	Conservative	Sherbrooke
Joseph-Arthur Lortie	Conservative	Soulanges
Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Libéral	Stanstead
Télésphore Simard	Libéral	Témiscamingue
Jules Langlais	Conservative	Témiscouata
Athanase David	Libéral	Terrebonne
Louis-Philippe Mercier	Libéral	Trois-Rivières
Hormisdas Pilon	Libéral	Vaudreuil
Jean-Marie Richard	Libéral	Verchères
Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount
Cyrénus Lemieux	Libéral	Wolfe
Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette	Libéral	Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during the term in by-elections

Hector Authier, Quebec Liberal Party, Abitibi, October 22, 1923 [1]
Carlton James Oliver, Quebec Liberal Party, Brome, October 22, 1923 [2]
Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais, Quebec Liberal Party, Richmond, October 22, 1923 [3]
David Laperrière, Quebec Liberal Party, Yamaska, October 22, 1923 [4]
Pierre-Émile Côté, Quebec Liberal Party, Bonaventure, November 5, 1924 [5]
Ludger Bastien, Quebec Conservative Party, Québec, November 5, 1924 [6]
Alphonse-Edgar Guillemette, Quebec Liberal Party, Saint-Maurice, November 5, 1924 [7]
Armand-Charles Crépeau, Quebec Conservative Party, Sherbrooke, November 5, 1924 [8]
Joseph Miljours, Quebec Liberal Party, Témiscamingue, November 28, 1924 [9]
Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques, Quebec Conservative Party, Argenteuil, November 30, 1925 [10]
Amédée Sylvestre, Quebec Liberal Party, Berthier, November 30, 1925 [11]
William-Pierre Grant, Quebec Liberal Party, Champlain, November 30, 1925 [12]
Victor Marchand, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques-Cartier, November 30, 1925 [13]

Cabinet Ministers

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron
Colonisation, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault
Public Works and Labor: Antonin Galipeault
Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
Roads: Joseph-Léonide Perron
Municipal Affairs: Jacob Nicol (1923-1924), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1924-1927)
Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Provincial secretary: Athanase David
Treasurer: Jacob Nicol
Members without portfolios: Martin Madden, Laureat Lapierre (1924-1927), Joseph Henry Dillon (1927), Alfred Leduc (1927)

References