# 12th Quebec Legislature

The 12th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from June 8, 1908, to May 15, 1912. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Lomer Gouin was the governing party.

## Seats per political party

* After the 1908 elections
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Liberal | 57 |
| | Conservative | 14 |
| | Ligue nationaliste canadienne | 3 |
| Total | Total | 74 |
| Government Majority | Government Majority | 43 |

## Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1908 election:
| Name | Party | Riding | First elected / previously elected |
| William Alexander Weir | Liberal | Argenteuil | 1897 |
| John Hay (1910) | Liberal | Argenteuil | 1910 |
| Paul Tourigny | Liberal | Arthabaska | 1900 |
| Frédéric-Hector Daigneault | Liberal | Bagot | 1900 |
| Arthur Godbout | Liberal | Beauce | 1902 |
| Arthur Plante | Conservative | Beauharnois | 1898, 1908 |
| Adélard Turgeon | Liberal | Bellechasse | 1890 |
| Antonin Galipeault (1909) | Liberal | Bellechasse | 1909 |
| Joseph Lafontaine | Liberal | Berthier | 1904 |
| John Hall Kelly | Liberal | Bonaventure | 1904 |
| William Frederick Vilas | Liberal | Brome | 1906 |
| Maurice Perrault | Liberal | Chambly | 1900 |
| Lesieur Desaulniers (1909) | Liberal | Chambly | 1909 |
| Pierre-Calixte Neault | Liberal | Champlain | 1900 |
| Pierre D'Auteuil | Conservative | Charlevoix | 1897, 1904 |
| Hospice Dumtremble | Conservative | Châteauguay | 1908 |
| Honoré Mercier Jr. (1908) | Liberal | Châteauguay | 1907, 1908 |
| Honoré Petit | Liberal | Chicoutimi et Saguenay | 1892 |
| Allen Wright Girard | Conservative | Compton | 1900 |
| Arthur Sauvé | Conservative | Deux-Montagnes | 1908 |
| Alfred Morissett | Liberal | Dorchester | 1904 |
| Joseph Laferté | Liberal | Drummond | 1901 |
| Louis-Jules Allard (1910) | Liberal | Drummond | 1897, 1910 |
| Louis-Joseph Lemieux | Liberal | Gaspé | 1904 |
| Joseph-Léonide Perron (1910) | Liberal | Gaspé | 1910 |
| Louis-Jérémie Décarie | Liberal | Hochelaga | 1904 |
| William H. Walker | Liberal | Huntingdon | 1900 |
| Joseph-Aldéric Benoît | Liberal | Iberville | 1906 |
| Louis-Albin Theriault | Liberal | Îles-de-la-Madeleine | 1906 |
| Philémon Cousineau | Conservative | Jacques Cartier | 1908 |
| Joseph-Mathias Tellier | Conservative | Joliette | 1892 |
| Louis-Rodolphe Roy | Liberal | Kamouraska | 1897 |
| Louis-Auguste Dupuis (1909) | Liberal | Kamouraska | 1909 |
| Theodore-Louis-Antoine Broet | Liberal | Lac St-Jean | 1908 |
| Jean-Baptiste Carbonneau (1908) | Liberal | Lac St-Jean | 1908 |
| Ésioff-Léon Patenaude | Conservative | Laprairie | 1908 |
| Walter Reed | Liberal | L'Assomption | 1908 |
| Joseph-Wenceslas Lévesque | Liberal | Laval | 1908 |
| Jean-Cléophas Blouin | Liberal | Lévis | 1901 |
| Laetare Roy (1911) | Liberal | Lévis | 1911 |
| Joseph-Édouard Caron | Liberal | L'Islet | 1902 |
| Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur | Liberal | Lotbinière | 1908 |
| Georges Lafontaine | Conservative | Maskinongé | 1904 |
| Donat Caron | Liberal | Matane | 1899 |
| David Henry Pennington | Conservative | Mégantic | 1908 |
| Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin | Liberal | Missisquoi | 1900 |
| Joseph Sylvestre | Conservative | Montcalm | 1908 |
| Armand Lavergne | Ligue nationaliste canadienne | Montmagny | 1908 |
| Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | Liberal | Montmorency | 1900 |
| Georges-Albini Lacombe | Liberal | Montréal division no. 1 | 1897 |
| Napoléon Séguin (1908) | Liberal | Montréal division no. 1 | 1908 |
| Henri Bourassa | Ligue nationaliste canadienne | Montréal division no. 2 | 1908 |
| Clement Robillard (1909) | Liberal | Montréal division no. 2 | 1909 |
| Godfroy Langlois | Liberal | Montréal division no. 3 | 1904 |
| John Thomas Finnie | Liberal | Montréal division no. 4 | 1908 |
| Charles Ernest Gault | Conservative | Montréal division no. 5 | 1907 |
| Denis Tansey | Conservative | Montréal division no. 6 | 1908 |
| Michael James Walsh (1908) | Liberal | Montréal division no. 6 | 1904, 1908 |
| Cyprien Dorris | Liberal | Napierville | 1905 |
| Charles Ramsay Devlin | Liberal | Nicolet | 1907 |
| Ferdinand-Ambroise Gendron | Liberal | Ottawa | 1904 |
| Tancrède Charles Gaboury | Liberal | Pontiac | 1908 |
| Lomer Gouin | Liberal | Portneuf | 1897 |
| Cyrille Fraser Delage | Liberal | Québec-Comté | 1901 |
| Amédée Robitaille | Liberal | Québec-Centre | 1897 |
| Eugène Leclerc (1908) | Liberal | Québec-Centre | 1908 |
| Louis-Alfred Létourneau | Liberal | Québec-Est | 1908 |
| John Charles Kaine | Liberal | Québec-Ouest | 1904 |
| Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin | Liberal | Richelieu | 1886, 1897 |
| Peter Samuel George Mackenzie | Liberal | Richmond | 1900 |
| Pierre-Émile D'Anjou | Liberal | Rimouski | 1907 |
| Alfred Girard | Liberal | Rouville | 1890, 1900 |
| Joseph-Edmond Robert (1908) | Liberal | Rouville | 1908 |
| Henri Bourassa | Ligue nationaliste canadienne | St. Hyacinthe | 1908 |
| Gabriel Marchand III | Liberal | St. Jean | 1908 |
| Marcellin Robert (1910) | Liberal | St. Jean | 1910 |
| Georges-Isidore Delisle | Liberal | St. Maurice | 1908 |
| Charles-Eugene Côté | Liberal | St. Sauveur | 1905 |
| Joseph-Alphonse Langlois (1909) | Parti ouvrier | St. Sauveur | 1909 |
| Ludger-Pierre Bernard | Conservative | Shefford | 1904 |
| Pantaléon Pelletier | Liberal | Sherbrooke | 1900 |
| Calixte-Émile Therrien (1911) | Liberal | Sherbrooke | 1911 |
| Joseph-Octave Mousseau | Liberal | Soulanges | 1904 |
| Prosper-Alfred Bissonnet | Liberal | Stanstead | 1904 |
| Napoléon Dion | Liberal | Témiscouata | 1900 |
| Jean Prévost | Liberal | Terrebonne | 1900 |
| Joseph-Adolphe Tessier | Liberal | Trois-Rivières | 1904 |
| Hormisdas Pilon | Liberal | Vaudreuil | 1901 |
| Amédée Geoffrion | Liberal | Verchères | 1908 |
| Napoléon-Pierre Tanguay | Liberal | Wolfe | 1904 |
| Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette | Liberal | Yamaska | 1905 |

## Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in this mandate during by-elections
* Jean-Baptiste Carbonneau, Quebec Liberal Party, Lac St-Jean, October 14, 1908
* Joseph-Edmond Robert, Quebec Liberal Party, Rouville, October 26, 1908
* Napoléon Séguin, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal division no. 1, December 21, 1908
* Honoré Mercier Jr., Quebec Liberal Party, Châteauguay, December 28, 1908
* Michael James Walsh, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal division no. 6, December 28, 1908
* Eugène Leclerc, Quebec Liberal Party, Québec Centre, December 28, 1908
* Antonin Galipeault, Quebec Liberal Party, Bellechasse, February 2, 1909
* Lesieur Desaulniers, Quebec Liberal Party, Chambly, November 12, 1909
* Clement Robillard, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal division no. 2, November 12, 1909
* Joseph-Alphonse Langlois, Parti ouvrier, St. Sauveur, November 12, 1909
* Louis-Auguste Dupuis, Quebec Liberal Party, Kamouraska, December 6, 1909
* Joseph-Léonide Perron, Quebec Liberal Party, Gaspé, February 17, 1910
* John Hay, Quebec Liberal Party, Argenteuil, March 5, 1910
* Louis-Jules Allard, Quebec Liberal Party, Drummond, March 5, 1910
* Marcellin Robert, Quebec Liberal Party, St. Jean, December 29, 1910
* Calixte-Émile Therrien, Quebec Liberal Party, Sherbrooke, August 17, 1911
* Laetare Roy, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, September 21, 1911

## Cabinet Ministers

* Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Lomer Gouin
* Agriculture: Jules Allard (1908–1909), Jérémie-Louis Décarie (1909), Joseph-Edouard Caron (1909–1912)
* Colonisation, Mines and Fishing: Charles Devlin Ramsey
* Public Works and Labor: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
* Lands and Forests: Adélard Turgeon (1908–1909), Jules Allard (1909–1912)
* Roads: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1912)
* Attorney General:Lomer Gouin
* Provincial secretary: Louis-Rodolphe Roy (1908–1909), Louis-Jérémie Décarie (1909–1912)
* Treasurer: William Alexander Weir (1908–1910), Peter Samuel George MacKenzie (1910–1912)
* Members without portfolios: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1909), Narcisse Pérodeau (1910–1912)

## New electoral districts

The electoral map was reformed in 1912 just a few months prior to the general elections later that year.
* Chicoutimi was formed after being split from Saguenay which itself merged with Charlevoix to form Charlevoix—Saguenay (provincial electoral district).
* Frontenac was formed from parts of Beauce and Compton
* Labelle was formed from parts of Ottawa
* Hochelaga was split into five new districts : Maisonneuve, Montréal-Hochelaga, Westmount, Montréal-Laurier and Montréal-Dorion.
* Montréal division no. 6 was renamed Montréal–Sainte-Anne.
* Montréal division no. 1 was renamed Montréal–Sainte-Marie.
* Montréal division no. 5 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Georges.
* Montréal division no. 2 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Jacques.
* Montréal division no. 4 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Laurent.
* Montréal division no. 3 was renamed Montréal–Saint-Louis.
* Témiscamingue was created from parts of Pontiac.