17th Quebec Legislature

The 17th Quebec Legislature was the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from May 16, 1927, to July 30, 1931. The Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau as Premier of Quebec had a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and was the governing party.

Seats per political party

After the 1927 elections

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Affiliation		Members
	Liberal Party	75
Conservative Party	9
	Labour	1
Total		85
Government Majority		66

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1927 election:

	Name	Party	Riding
Hector Authier	Liberal	Abitibi
Georges-Étienne Dansereau	Liberal	Argenteuil
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska
Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot
Joseph-Hugues Fortier	Liberal	Beauce
Louis-Joseph Papineau	Liberal	Beauharnois
Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse
Cléophas Bastien	Liberal	Berthier
Pierre-Émile Côté	Liberal	Bonaventure
Carlton James Oliver	Liberal	Brome
Alexandre Thurber	Liberal	Chambly
William-Pierre Grant	Liberal	Champlain
Edgar Rochette	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay
Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay
Gustave Delisle	Liberal	Chicoutimi
Jacob Nicol	Liberal	Compton
Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes
Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester
Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond
Cyrille Baillargeon	Liberal	Frontenac
Gustave Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé
Aimé Guertin	Conservative	Hull
Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon
Lucien Lamoureux	Liberal	Iberville
Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Victor Marchand	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier
Lucien Dugas	Liberal	Joliette
Nérée Morin	Liberal	Kamouraska
Pierre Lortie	Liberal	Labelle
Émile Moreau	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean
Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption
Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr.	Conservative	Laval
Alfred-Valère Roy	Liberal	Lévis
Élisée Thériault	Liberal	L'Islet
Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière
	William Tremblay	Labour	Maisonneuve
Joseph-William Gagnon	Liberal	Maskinongé
Joseph-Arthur Bergeron	Liberal	Matane
Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matapédia
Lauréat Lapierre	Liberal	Mégantic
Alexandre Saurette	Liberal	Missisquoi
Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel	Liberal	Montcalm
Charles-Abraham Paquet	Liberal	Montmagny
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency
Aldéric Blain	Conservative	Montréal-Dorion
Ernest Poulin	Liberal	Montréal-Laurier
Anatole Plante	Liberal	Montréal-Mercier
Joseph Henry Dillon	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne
Joseph Gauthier	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Marie
Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges
Alfred Leduc	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Henri
Irénée Vautrin	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Jacques
Joseph Cohen	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Laurent
Peter Bercovitch	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis
Pierre-Auguste Lafleur	Conservative	Montréal-Verdun
Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau	Liberal	Napierville-Laprairie
Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Liberal	Nicolet
Désiré Lahaie	Liberal	Papineau
Wallace Reginald McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac
Édouard Hamel	Liberal	Portneuf
Joseph-Ephraim Bédard	Liberal	Québec-Comté
Joseph Samson	Liberal	Québec-Centre
Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est
Joseph Ignatius Power	Liberal	Québec-Ouest
Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière	Liberal	Richelieu
Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais	Liberal	Richmond
Louis-Joseph Moreault	Liberal	Rimouski
Cyril-Améric Bernard	Liberal	Rouville
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe
Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean
Joseph-Auguste Frigon	Liberal^[1]	Saint-Maurice
Charles-Édouard Cantin	Liberal	Saint-Sauveur
William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford
Armand-Charles Crépeau	Conservative	Sherbrooke
Avila Ferland	Liberal	Soulanges
Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead
Joseph-Édouard Piché	Liberal	Témiscamingue
Léon Casgrain	Liberal	Témiscouata
Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne
Maurice Duplessis	Conservative	Trois-Rivières
Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil
Félix Messier	Liberal	Verchères
Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount
Cyrénus Lemieux	Liberal	Wolfe
David Lapperrière	Liberal	Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during by-elections in this term

Pierre Gagnon, Liberal Party, Kamouraska, October 31, 1927^[2]
Pierre Gauthier, Liberal Party, Portneuf, October 31, 1927^[3]
Amédée Caron, Liberal Party, Iles-de-la-Madeleine, July 14, 1928^[4]
Oscar Drouin, Liberal Party, Québec-Est, October 24, 1928^[5]
Camillien Houde, Conservative Party, Montréal-Sainte-Marie, October 24, 1928^[6]
Adélard Godbout, Liberal Party, L'Islet, May 13, 1929^[7]
Andrew Ross McMaster, Liberal Party, Compton, September 30, 1929^[8]
Avila Turcotte, Liberal Party, Richelieu, October 28, 1929^[9]
Joseph-Léonide Perron, Liberal Party, Montcalm, November 16, 1929^[10]
Joseph-Édouard Fortin, Liberal Party, Beauce, December 9, 1929^[11]
Robert Taschereau, Liberal Party, Bellechasse, October 20, 1930^[12]
Paul Sauvé, Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, November 4, 1930^[13]
Martin Beattie Fisher, Conservative Party, Huntingdon, November 4, 1930^[14]
Louis-Joseph Thisdel, Liberal Party, Maskinongé, November 4, 1930^[15]

Cabinet Ministers

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1927-1929), Joseph-Léonide Perron (1929-1930), Adélard Godbout (1930-1931)
Colonization, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1927-1929), Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Colonization, Hunting and Fishing: Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Mines: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1930-1931)
Public Works and Labour: Antonin Galipeault (1927-1930), Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1930-1931)
Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
Roads: Joseph-Léonide Perron (1927-1929), Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1929-1931)
Municipal Affairs: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Provincial secretary: Athanase David
Treasurer: Jacob Nicol (1927-1929), Andrew Ross McMaster (1929-1930), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1930-1931)
Members without portfolios: Joseph-Charles-Ernest Ouellet (1929-1931), Narcisse Pérodeau (1929-1931), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930-1931)

New electoral districts

The electoral map was reformed in 1930 and the new map was first used in the general election of August 24, 1931.^[16]

Gaspé was split into two ridings: Gaspé-Nord and Gaspé-Sud.
Gatineau was created from parts of Hull.
Laviolette was created from parts of Champlain.
Roberval was created from parts of Lac-Saint-Jean
Rivière-du-Loup was created from parts of Témiscouata.

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