5th Quebec Legislature

The 5th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from December 2, 1881, to October 14, 1886. The Quebec Conservative Party led Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Joseph-Alfred Mousseau and John Jones Ross was the governing party. Chapleau was succeeded by Mousseau in 1882 while Ross succeeded Mousseau in 1884. It was the Conservatives last majority government.

Seats per political party

After the 1881 elections

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Affiliation		Members
Conservative Party	50
	Parti libéral du Québec/Parti national	14
Conservative Independent	1
Total		65
Government Majority		36

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1881 election:

	Name	Party
William Owens	Conservative	Argenteuil
Antoine Casavant	Conservative	Bagot
Jean Blanchet	Conservative	Beauce
Célestin Bergevin	Conservative	Beauharnois
Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice	Conservative	Bellechasse
Joseph Robillard	Conservative	Berthier
Louis-Joseph Riopel	Conservative	Bonaventure
William Warren Lynch	Conservative	Brome
Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel	Conservative	Chambly
Robert Trudel	Conservative	Champlain
Onésime Gauthier	Conservative	Charlevoix
Édouard Laberge	Libéral	Châteauguay
Élie Saint-Hilaire	Conservative Independent	Chicoutimi et Saguenay
William Sawyer	Conservative	Compton
Charles Champagne	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes
Nicodème Audet	Conservative	Dorchester
William John Watts	Libéral	Drummond et Arthabaska
Edmund James Flynn	Conservative	Gaspé
Louis Beaubien	Conservative	Hochelaga
Alexander Cameron	Libéral	Huntingdon
Alexis-Louis Demers	Libéral	Iberville
Charles Marcotte	Conservative	Islet
Narcisse Lecavalier	Conservative	Jacques Cartier
Vincent-Paul Lavallée	Conservative	Joliette
Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon	Libéral	Kamouraska
Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois	Conservative	Laprairie
Joseph Marion	Conservative	L'Assomption
Louis-Onésime Loranger	Conservative	Laval
Étienne-Théodore Pâquet	Conservative	Lévis
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Libéral	Lotbinière
Édouard Caron	Conservative	Maskinongé
George Irvine	Libéral	Mégantic
Elijah Edmund Spencer	Conservative	Missisquoi
Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard	Conservative	Montcalm
Louis-Napoléon Fortin	Libéral	Montmagny
Louis-Georges Desjardins	Conservative	Montmorency
George Washington Stephens Sr.	Libéral	Montréal Centre
Louis-Olivier Taillon	Conservative	Montréal Est
James McShane	Libéral	Montreal Ouest
François-Xavier Paradis	Conservative	Napierville
Charles-Édouard Houde	Conservative	Nicolet
Louis Duhamel	Conservative	Ottawa (Outaouais)
Thomas Bryson	Conservative	Pontiac
Jean-Docile Brousseau	Conservative	Portneuf
Pierre Garneau	Conservative	Québec-Comté
Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin	Libéral	Québec-Centre
Joseph Shehyn	Libéral	Québec-Est
Félix Carbray	Conservative	Québec-Ouest
Léon Leduc	Conservative	Richelieu
Jacques Picard	Conservative	Richmond et Wolfe
Louis-Napoléon Asselin	Conservative	Rimouski
Étienne Poulin	Conservative	Rouville
Honoré Mercier	Libéral	St. Hyacinthe
Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Libéral	St. Jean
François-Sévère Desaulniers	Conservative	St. Maurice
Isidore Frégeau	Conservative	Shefford
Joseph Gibb Robertson	Conservative	Sherbrooke
William Duckett	Conservative	Soulanges
John Thornton	Conservative	Stanstead
Georges-Honoré Deschênes	Conservative	Témiscouata
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	Conservative	Terrebonne
Sévère Dumoulin	Conservative	Trois-Rivières
Émery Lalonde, Sr.	Conservative	Vaudreuil
Abraham Bernard	Libéral	Verchères
Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele	Conservative	Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

William Joseph Poupore, Quebec Conservative Party, Pontiac, March 6, 1882 ^[1]
Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Quebec Conservative Party, Terrebonne, August 19, 1882 ^[2]
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Quebec Conservative Party, Jacques Cartier, August 26, 1882 ^[3]
Benjamin Beauchamp, Quebec Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, October 21, 1882 ^[4]
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, Quebec Conservative Party, Laval, October 30, 1882 ^[5] & July 14, 1884 ^[6]
François-Xavier Archambault, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, October 30, 1882 ^[7]
Henri-Josué Martin, Quebec Conservative Party, Bonaventure, October 31, 1882 ^[8]
Louis-Tréfflé Dorais, Conservative Independent, Nicolet, February 5, 1883 ^[9]
Amédée Gaboury, Quebec Liberal Party, Laval, June 13, 1883 ^[10]
François-Xavier Lemieux, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, November 16, 1883 ^[11]
Joseph-Émery Robidoux, Quebec Liberal Party, Châteauguay, March 26, 1884 ^[12]
Arthur Boyer, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques Cartier, March 26, 1884 ^[13]
Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte, Conservative Independent, Trois-Rivières, March 26, 1884 ^[14]
Alfred Lapointe, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, June 19, 1884 ^[15]
John Whyte, Quebec Liberal Party, Mégantic, October 29, 1884 ^[16]
Alfred McConville, Quebec Conservative Party, Joliette, September 25, 1885 ^[17]
Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté, Quebec Liberal Party, Lotbinière, January 30, 1886 ^[18]
Joseph-Éna Girouard, Quebec Liberal Party, Drummond et Arthabaska, March 24, 1886 ^[19]

Cabinet Ministers

Chapleau Cabinet (1881-1882)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross (1881-1882), Elisée Dionne (1882)
Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
Railroad: John Jones Ross (1881-1882), William Warren Lych (1882)
Attorney General: Louis-Onésime Loranger
Secretary and Registry: Etienne-Théodore Pâquet
Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson (1881-1882), Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele (1882)
Solicitor General: William Warren Lynch
Legislative Council President: John Jones Ross

Mousseau Cabinet (1882-1884)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Agriculture and public works: Elisée Dionne
Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
Railroad: Henry Starnes
Attorney General: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
Treasurer: Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele

Ross Cabinet (1884-1886)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: John Jones Ross
Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross
Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
Railroad: Edmund James Flynn
Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn (1885-1886)

References

Notes

[1] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-pontiac.html#1882p

[2] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-terrebonne.html#1882p

[3] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-jacques-cartier.html#1882p

[4] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-deux-montagnes.html#1882p

[5] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-laval.html#1882p

[6] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-laval.html#1884p

[7] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-vaudreuil.html#1882p

[8] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-bonaventure.html#1882p

[9] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-nicolet.html#1883p

[10] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-laval.html#1883p

[11] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-levis.html#1883p

[12] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-chateauguay.html#1884p

[13] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-jacques-cartier.html#1884p

[14] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-trois-rivieres.html#1884p

[15] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-vaudreuil.html#1884p

[16] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-megantic.html#1884p

[17] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-joliette.html#1885p

[18] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-lotbiniere.html#1886p

[19] ttp://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-drummond-et-arthabaska.html#1886p

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