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

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	63
	Conservative	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	Riding
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Abitibi
John Hay	Liberal	Argenteuil
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska
Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot
Joseph-Hugues Fortier	Liberal	Beauce
Arthur Plante	Conservative	Beauharnois
Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse
Siméon Lafrenière	Liberal	Berthier
Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud	Liberal	Bonaventure
William Robert Oliver	Liberal	Brome
Alexandre Thurber	Liberal	Chambly
Bruno Bordeleau	Liberal	Champlain
Philippe Dufour	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
Joseph-Roméo Lafond	Liberal	Hull
Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon
Lucien Lamoureux	Liberal	Iberville
Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Ésioff-Léon Patenaude	Conservative	Jacques-Cartier
Pierre-Joseph Dufresne	Conservative	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
Jean-Marie Pellerin	Conservative	Maisonneuve
Rodolphe Tourville	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
Ernest Tétreau	Liberal Independent	Montréal-Dorion
Alfred Duranleau	Conservative	Montréal-Laurier
Adolphe L'Archevêque	Conservative	Montréal-Mercier
William James Hushion	Liberal	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	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 McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac
Édouard Hamel	Liberal	Portneuf
Aurèle Leclerc	Liberal	Québec-Comté
Pierre-Vincent Faucher	Conservative	Québec-Centre
Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est
Martin Madden	Liberal	Québec-Ouest
Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière	Liberal	Richelieu
Georges-Ervé Denault	Liberal	Richmond
Louis-Joseph Moreault	Liberal	Rimouski
Cyril-Améric Bernard	Liberal	Rouville
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe
Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean
Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard	Liberal	Saint-Maurice
Pierre Bertrand	Parti ouvrier	Saint-Sauveur
William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford
Moïse O'Bready	Conservative	Sherbrooke
Joseph-Arthur Lortie	Conservative	Soulanges
Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead
Télésphore Simard	Liberal	Témiscamingue
Jules Langlais	Conservative	Témiscouata
Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne
Louis-Philippe Mercier	Liberal	Trois-Rivières
Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil
Jean-Marie Richard	Liberal	Verchères
Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount
Cyrénus Lemieux	Liberal	Wolfe
Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette	Liberal	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