# 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada

The 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in August 1854, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in July 1854. The number of seats in the Assembly had been increased by the 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada to 130, 65 for each section. Sessions were held in Quebec City until 1856 and then in Toronto. The Parliament was dissolved in November 1857.
In 1854 and 1855, measures were introduced to abolish seigneurial tenure in Canada East and the clergy reserves in Canada West. The Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty was negotiated in 1854. In 1855, a bill was passed to make the Legislative Council an elected body, effective the following year. The Audit Act of 1855 established an auditor of public accounts, the first auditor general and the Audit Board, a new government department, which reviewed the public accounts.
The Speaker of this parliament was Louis-Victor Sicotte.

## Canada East - 65 seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| Argenteuil | Sydney Robert Bellingham | Reformer |
| Bagot | Timothée Brodeur | Reformer |
| Beauce | Dunbar Ross | Rouge |
| Beauharnois | Charles Daoust | Rouge |
| Bellechasse | Octave-Cyrille Fortier (1854) | Bleu |
| Berthier | Pierre-Eustache Dostaler | Reformer |
| Bonaventure | John Meagher | Reformer |
| Chambly | Noël Darche | Rouge |
| Champlain | Thomas Marchildon | Rouge |
| Châteauguay | Jacob De Witt | Rouge |
| Chicoutimi—Saguenay and Tadoussac | Augustin-Norbert Morin | Reformer |
| | David Edward Price (1855) | Conservative |
| Compton | John Sewell Sanborn | Liberal |
| Deux-Montagnes | Jean-Baptiste Daoust | Reformer |
| Dorchester | Barthélemy Pouliot | Reformer |
| Drummond—Arthabaska | Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion | Rouge |
| Gaspé | John Le Boutillier | Reformer |
| Hochelaga | Joseph Laporte | Reformer |
| Huntingdon | Robert Brown Somerville | Independent |
| Iberville | Charles Laberge | Rouge |
| Jacques-Cartier | Michel-François Valois | Rouge |
| Joliette | Joseph-Hilarion Jobin | Rouge |
| Kamouraska | Jean-Charles Chapais | Reformer |
| Laprairie | Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger | Independent |
| L'Assomption | Joseph Papin | Rouge |
| Laval | Pierre Labelle | Bleu |
| Lévis | François-Xavier Lemieux | Reformer |
| L'Islet | Charles-François Fournier | Reformer |
| Lotbinière | John O'Farrell | Moderate |
| Maskinongé | Joseph-Édouard Turcotte | Reformer |
| Mégantic | William Rhodes | Reformer |
| East Missisquoi | James Moir Ferres | Tory |
| West Missisquoi | Hannibal Hodges Whitney | Reformer |
| Montcalm | Joseph Dufresne | Bleu |
| Montmagny | Louis-Napoléon Casault | Moderate |
| Montmorency | Joseph-Édouard Cauchon | Reformer |
| Montreal | Antoine-Aimé Dorion | Rouge |
| Montreal | Luther Hamilton Holton | Rouge |
| Montreal | John Young | Rouge |
| Nicolet | Thomas Fortier | Reformer |
| Napierville | Jacques-Olivier Bureau | Rouge |
| Ottawa | Alanson Cooke | Rouge |
| Pontiac | John Egan | Reformer |
| | George Bryson (1857) | Conservative |
| Portneuf | Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau | Reformer |
| Quebec County | Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau | Reformer |
| | François Évanturel (1855) | Bleu |
| Quebec City | Jean Chabot | Reformer |
| | Georges-Honoré Simard (1856) | Bleu |
| Quebec City | Jean Blanchet | Reformer |
| | George Okill Stuart (1857) | Conservative |
| Quebec City | Charles Joseph Alleyn | Conservative |
| Richelieu | Jean-Baptiste Guévremont | Moderate |
| Rimouski | Joseph-Charles Taché | Reformer |
| | Michel Guillaume Baby (1857) | Bleu |
| Rouville | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | Reformer |
| | William Henry Chaffers (1856) | Rouge |
| Saguenay | Pierre-Gabriel Huot | Independent |
| St. Hyacinthe | Louis-Victor Sicotte | Liberal |
| Saint-Jean | François Bourassa | Rouge |
| Saint-Maurice | Louis-Léon Lesieur Désaulniers | Reformer |
| Shefford | Lewis Thomas Drummond | Liberal |
| Sherbrooke | Alexander Tilloch Galt | Independent |
| Sherbrooke (county) and Wolfe | William Locker Pickmore Felton | Conservative |
| Soulanges | Luc-Hyacinthe Masson | Reformer |
| Stanstead | Timothy Lee Terrill | Moderate |
| Témiscouata | Benjamin Dionne | Reformer |
| Terrebonne | Gédéon-Mélasippe Prévost | Rouge |
| | Louis-Siméon Morin (1857) | Bleu |
| Trois-Rivières | Antoine Polette | Reformer |
| Vaudreuil | Jean-Baptiste Mongenais | Reformer |
| Verchères | George-Étienne Cartier | Reformer |
| Yamaska | Ignace Gill | Conservative |

## Canada West - 65 seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| East Brant | Daniel McKerlie | Conservative |
| | David Christie (1855) | Clear Grit |
| West Brant | Herbert Biggar | Reformer |
| Brockville | George Crawford | Conservative |
| Bytown | Agar Yielding | Conservative |
| Carleton | William F. Powell | Conservative |
| Cornwall | Roderick McDonald | Clear Grit |
| Dundas | John Pliny Crysler | Conservative |
| East Durham | Francis H. Burton | Conservative |
| West Durham | Henry Munro | Reformer |
| East Elgin | George Southwick | Reformer |
| West Elgin | George Macbeth | Conservative |
| Essex | Arthur Rankin | Conservative |
| Frontenac | Henry Smith, Jr | Conservative |
| Glengarry | John Sandfield Macdonald | Clear Grit |
| Grenville | William Patrick | Reformer |
| Grey | George Jackson | Reformer |
| Haldimand | William Lyon Mackenzie | Reformer |
| Halton | George King Chisholm | Conservative |
| Hamilton | Allan Napier MacNab | Conservative |
| North Hastings | Edmund Murney | Conservative |
| | George Benjamin (1856) | Conservative |
| South Hastings | Billa Flint | Clear Grit |
| Huron & Bruce | William Cayley | Tory |
| Kent | Edwin Larwill | Conservative |
| Kingston | John A. Macdonald | Conservative |
| Lambton | George Brown | Reformer |
| North Lanark | Robert Bell | Reformer |
| South Lanark | James Shaw | Conservative |
| North Leeds & Grenville | Basil R. Church | Reformer |
| South Leeds | Jesse Delong | Reformer |
| Lennox & Addington | David Roblin | Reformer |
| Lincoln | William Hamilton Merritt | Clear Grit |
| London | John Wilson | Conservative |
| East Middlesex | William E. Niles | Reformer |
| West Middlesex | John Scatcherd | Clear Grit |
| Niagara (town) | Joseph Curran Morrison | Reformer |
| Norfolk | John Rolph | Clear Grit |
| East Northumberland | James Ross | |
| West Northumberland | Sidney Smith | Reformer |
| North Ontario | Joseph Gould | Reformer |
| South Ontario | John McVeagh Lumsden | Clear Grit |
| North Oxford | Donald Matheson | Clear Grit |
| South Oxford | Ephraim Cook | Clear Grit |
| Peel | James Cox Aikins | Clear Grit |
| Perth | Thomas Mayne Daly | Reformer |
| Peterborough | John Langton | Conservative |
| | Wilson Seymour Conger (1856) | Conservative |
| Prescott | Henry Wellesly McCann | Conservative |
| Prince Edward | David Barker Stevenson | Conservative |
| Renfrew | Francis Hincks | Reformer |
| | John Supple (1856) | |
| Russell | George Byron Lyon-Fellowes | Conservative |
| North Simcoe | Angus Morrison | Reformer |
| South Simcoe | William Benjamin Robinson | Conservative |
| Stormont | William Mattice | Clear Grit |
| Toronto | John George Bowes | Conservative |
| Toronto | John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative |
| Victoria | James Smith | Reformer |
| North Waterloo | Michael Hamilton Foley | Reformer |
| South Waterloo | Robert Ferris | Clear Grit |
| Welland | John Fraser | Reformer |
| North Wellington | William Clarke | Conservative |
| South Wellington | Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair | Reformer |
| North Wentworth | Robert Spence | Independent |
| South Wentworth | Samuel B Freeman | Reformer |
| East York | Amos Wright | Reformer |
| North York | Joseph Hartman | Reformer |
| South York | John William Gamble | Tory |