# 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada

The 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in January 1858, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in December 1857. Sessions were held in Toronto in 1858 and then in Quebec City from 1859. The Parliament was dissolved in May 1861.
The 1858 parliamentary session was one of the longest and nastiest in Canadian history, opening in January 1858, just as news arrived from London that Queen Victoria had chosen Ottawa as the permanent seat for the Canadian government. In August 1858 the Macdonald-Cartier ministry carried out the divisive "double shuffle" that allowed the ministry to stay in power without facing by-elections.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was Sir Henry Smith.

## Electoral system

Each voter could cast as many votes as there were seats to fill in the district (First-past-the-post voting).
Montreal and Quebec City elected three members; Toronto elected two members. All others elected just one member. (Previous to the next election, all districts were changed to single-member districts.)

## Canada East - 65 seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| Argenteuil | Sydney Robert Bellingham | Reformer |
| | John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1860) | Liberal |
| Bagot | Maurice Laframboise | Rouge |
| Beauce | Dunbar Ross | Rouge |
| Beauharnois | Gédéon Ouimet | Bleu |
| Bellechasse | Octave-Cyrille Fortier | Bleu |
| Berthier | Eugène-Urgel Piché | Rouge |
| Bonaventure | John Meagher | Reformer |
| Brome | James Moir Ferres | Conservative |
| Chambly | Louis Lacoste | Bleu |
| Champlain | Joseph-Édouard Turcotte | Bleu |
| Charlevoix | Cléophe Cimon | Bleu |
| Châteauguay | Henry Starnes | Conservative |
| Chicoutimi—Saguenay | David Edward Price | Conservative |
| Compton | John Henry Pope | Conservative |
| Deux-Montagnes | Jean-Baptiste Daoust | Reformer |
| Dorchester | Hector-Louis Langevin | Bleu |
| Drummond—Arthabaska | Christopher Dunkin | Conservative |
| Gaspé | John Le Boutillier | Reformer |
| Hochelaga | Joseph Laporte | Bleu |
| Huntingdon | Robert Brown Somerville | Independent |
| Iberville | Charles Laberge | Rouge |
| Jacques-Cartier | François-Zéphirin Tassé | Bleu |
| Joliette | Joseph-Hilarion Jobin | Rouge |
| Laprairie | Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger | Bleu |
| Kamouraska | Jean-Charles Chapais | Reformer |
| L'Assomption | Louis Archambeault | Bleu |
| Laval | Pierre Labelle | Bleu |
| Lévis | François-Xavier Lemieux | Liberal-Conservative |
| L'Islet | Louis-Bonaventure Caron | Rouge |
| | Charles-François Fournier (1858) | Reformer |
| Lotbinière | John O'Farrell | Conservative |
| | Lewis Thomas Drummond (1858) | Liberal |
| Maskinongé | Louis-Honoré Gauvreau | Bleu |
| | George Caron (1858) | Bleu |
| Mégantic | Noël Hébert | Rouge |
| Missisquoi | Hannibal Hodges Whitney | Conservative |
| Montcalm | Joseph Dufresne | Bleu |
| Montmagny | Joseph-Octave Beaubien | Bleu |
| Montmorency | Joseph-Édouard Cauchon | Bleu |
| Montreal | John Rose | Conservative |
| Montreal | Antoine-Aimé Dorion | Rouge |
| Montreal | Thomas D'Arcy McGee | Rouge |
| Nicolet | Joseph Gaudet | Bleu |
| Napierville | Jacques-Olivier Bureau | Rouge |
| Ottawa | Denis-Émery Papineau | Rouge |
| Pontiac | Edmund Heath | Conservative |
| Portneuf | Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau | Reformer |
| Quebec County | Charles Panet | Bleu |
| Quebec City | Charles Joseph Alleyn | Conservative |
| Quebec City | Georges-Honoré Simard | Bleu |
| Quebec City | Hippolyte Dubord | Bleu |
| | Pierre-Gabriel Huot (1860) | Rouge |
| Richelieu | Jacques-Félix Sincennes | Bleu |
| Richmond—Wolfe | William Hoste Webb | Conservative |
| Rimouski | Michel-Guillaume Baby | Bleu |
| Rouville | Thomas Edmund Campbell | Conservative |
| St. Hyacinthe | Louis-Victor Sicotte | Bleu |
| Saint-Jean | François Bourassa | Rouge |
| Saint-Maurice | Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers | Bleu |
| Shefford | Lewis Thomas Drummond | Liberal |
| | Asa Belknap Foster (1858) | Conservative |
| Sherbrooke | Alexander Tilloch Galt | Liberal-Conservative |
| Soulanges | Dominique-Amable Coutlée | Bleu |
| Stanstead | Timothy Lee Terrill | Moderate |
| Témiscouata | Benjamin Dionne | Reformer |
| Terrebonne | Louis-Siméon Morin | Bleu |
| Trois-Rivières | William McDonell Dawson | Conservative |
| Vaudreuil | Robert Unwin Harwood | Conservative |
| | Jean-Baptiste Mongenais (1860) | Bleu |
| Verchères | George-Étienne Cartier | Bleu |
| Yamaska | Ignace Gill | Conservative |

## Canada West - 65 seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| East Brant | David Christie | Reformer |
| | Hugh Finlayson (1858) | |
| West Brant | Herbert Biggar | Reformer |
| Brockville | George Sherwood | Conservative |
| Carleton | William F. Powell | Conservative |
| Cornwall | John Sandfield Macdonald | Reformer |
| Dundas | James William Cook | Reformer |
| East Durham | Francis H. Burton | Conservative |
| West Durham | Henry Munro | Reformer |
| East Elgin | Leonidas Burwell | Reformer |
| West Elgin | George Macbeth | Conservative |
| Essex | John McLeod | Conservative |
| Frontenac | Henry Smith, Jr | Conservative |
| Glengarry | Donald Alexander Macdonald | Reformer |
| Grenville | William Patrick | Reformer |
| Grey | John Sheridan Hogan | Independent Liberal |
| | J.T. Purdy (1861) | Reformer |
| Haldimand | William Lyon Mackenzie | Reformer |
| | Michael Harcourt (1858) | Reformer |
| Halton | John White | Reformer |
| Hamilton | Isaac Buchanan | Independent |
| North Hastings | George Benjamin | Conservative |
| South Hastings | Lewis Wallbridge | Reformer |
| Huron & Bruce | John Holmes | Reformer |
| Kent | Archibald McKellar | Reformer |
| Kingston | John A. Macdonald | Liberal-Conservative |
| Lambton | Malcolm Cameron | Grit |
| | Hope Fleming Mackenzie (1860) | Reformer |
| North Lanark | Robert Bell | Reform |
| South Lanark | Andrew W. Playfair | |
| North Leeds & Grenville | Basil R. Church | Reformer |
| | Ogle Robert Gowan (1858) | Conservative |
| South Leeds | Benjamin Tett | Conservative |
| Lennox & Addington | David Roblin | Reformer |
| Lincoln | William Hamilton Merritt | Reformer |
| | John Charles Rykert (1860) | Reformer |
| London | John Carling | Liberal-Conservative |
| East Middlesex | Marcus Talbot | Conservative |
| | Robert Craik (1860) | Reformer |
| West Middlesex | John Scatcherd | |
| | Angus Peter McDonald (1858) | |
| Niagara (town) | John Simpson | Conservative |
| Norfolk | Walker Powell | Reformer |
| East Northumberland | John R Clark | Reformer |
| West Northumberland | Sidney Smith | Reformer |
| North Ontario | Joseph Gould | Reformer |
| South Ontario | Oliver Mowat | Reformer |
| Ottawa | Richard William Scott | Liberal-Conservative |
| North Oxford | William McDougall (1858) | Reformer |
| South Oxford | George Skeffington Connor | Reformer |
| Peel | James Cox Aikins | Clear Grit |
| Perth | Thomas Mayne Daly | Liberal-Conservative |
| Peterborough | Thomas Short | Reformer |
| Prescott | Henry Wellesly McCann | Conservative |
| Prince Edward | Willet C Dorland | Conservative |
| Renfrew | John Lorn McDougall | Reformer |
| | William Cayley (1858) | Tory |
| Russell | George Byron Lyon-Fellowes | Conservative |
| | John W Loux (1859) | |
| North Simcoe | Angus Morrison | Reform |
| South Simcoe | Thomas Roberts Ferguson | Conservative |
| Stormont | William D. Mattice | Reformer |
| Toronto | George Brown | Reformer |
| Toronto | John Beverley Robinson | Conservative |
| Victoria | John Cameron | Conservative |
| North Waterloo | Michael Hamilton Foley | Reform |
| South Waterloo | William Scott | Conservative |
| Welland | Gilbert McMicken | Reformer |
| North Wellington | Charles Allan | |
| | James Ross (1859) | Reformer |
| South Wellington | David Stirton | Reformer |
| North Wentworth | William Notman | Reformer |
| South Wentworth | Joseph Rymal | Reformer |
| East York | Amos Wright | Reformer |
| North York | Joseph Hartman | Reformer |
| | Adam Wilson (1860) | Reformer |
| West York | William Pearce Howland | Reformer |