# 3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada

The 3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in 1848, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in January 1848. The first session was held at Montreal, Canada East. In 1849, rioters protesting the Rebellion Losses Bill burned the parliament buildings. After briefly sitting at Bonsecours Market and Freemason’s Hall, the remaining sessions were held in Toronto. The Parliament was dissolved on November 6, 1851.
During the 1849 session of this parliament, a number of important bills were passed:
* the Act to provide for the Indemnification of Parties in Lower Canada whose Property was destroyed during the Rebellion in the years 1837 and 1838 (Rebellion Losses Bill)
* the Baldwin Act, also known as the Municipal Corporations Act, which replaced the local government system based on district councils in Canada West by government at the county level. It also granted more autonomy to townships, villages, towns and cities.
* the Amnesty Act which offered pardons to all those involved in the Rebellions of 1837-8.
In 1850, legislation was passed to regulate the operation of the postal service and to establish a post on the Executive Council for the Postmaster General for the Province of Canada.
The Speaker of this parliament was Augustin Norbert Morin.

## Canada East - 42 seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| Beauharnois | Jacob De Witt | Reformer |
| Bellechasse | Augustin-Norbert Morin | Patriote |
| Berthier | David Morrison Armstrong | Patriote |
| Bonaventure | William Cuthbert | Tory |
| Chambly | Pierre Beaubien | Patriote |
| | Louis Lacoste (1849) | Reformer |
| Champlain | Louis Guillet | Patriote |
| Deux-Montagnes | William Henry Scott | Reformer |
| Dorchester | François-Xavier Lemieux | Patriote |
| Drummond | Robert Nugent Watts | Conservative |
| Gaspé | Robert Christie | Independent |
| Huntingdon | Tancrède Sauvageau | Patriote |
| Kamouraska | Pierre Canac | Patriote |
| | Luc Letellier de St-Just (1851) | Liberal |
| Leinster | Norbert Dumas | Patriote |
| L'Islet | Charles-François Fournier | Patriote |
| Lotbinière | Joseph Laurin | Patriote |
| Mégantic | Dominick Daly | Conservative |
| | Dunbar Ross (1850) | Reformer |
| Missisquoi | William Badgley | Conservative |
| Montmorency | Joseph-Édouard Cauchon | Patriote |
| Montreal | Benjamin Holmes | Reformer |
| Montreal | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | Reformer |
| Montreal (county) | André Jobin | Reformer |
| Nicolet | Thomas Fortier | Patriote |
| Ottawa | John Egan | Reformer |
| Portneuf | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Reformer |
| Quebec County | Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau | Reformer |
| Quebec City | Thomas Cushing Aylwin | Patriote |
| | François-Xavier Méthot | Patriote |
| Quebec City | Jean Chabot | Conservative |
| Richelieu | Wolfred Nelson | Patriote |
| Rimouski | Joseph-Charles Taché | Patriote |
| Rouville | Pierre Davignon | Patriote |
| Saguenay | Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière | Patriote |
| St. Hyacinthe | Thomas Boutillier | Reformer |
| Saint-Maurice | Louis-Joseph Papineau | Patriote |
| Shefford | Lewis Thomas Drummond | Conservative |
| Sherbrooke | Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy | Conservative |
| Sherbrooke (county) | Samuel Brooks | Conservative |
| | Alexander Tilloch Galt (1849) | Independent |
| | John Sewell Sanborn (1850) | Liberal |
| Stanstead | John McConnell | Conservative |
| Terrebonne | Louis-Michel Viger | Patriote |
| Trois-Rivières | Antoine Polette (1848) | Reformer |
| Vaudreuil | Jean-Baptiste Mongenais | Patriote |
| Verchères | James Leslie | Patriote |
| | George-Étienne Cartier (1848) | Reformer |
| Yamaska | Michel Fourquin | Reformer |

## Canada West - 42 seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| Brockville | George Sherwood | |
| Bytown | John Scott | Conservative |
| Carleton | Edward Malloch | |
| Cornwall | John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative |
| Dundas | John Pliny Crysler | |
| Durham | James Smith | |
| Essex | John Prince | |
| Frontenac | Henry Smith, Jr | Conservative |
| Glengarry | John Sandfield Macdonald | Reformer |
| Grenville | Reed Burritt | |
| Haldimand | David Thompson | Reformer |
| | William Lyon Mackenzie (1851) | Reformer |
| East Halton | John Wetenhall | Reformer |
| | Caleb Hopkins (1850) | Clear Grit |
| Hamilton | Allan Napier MacNab | Conservative |
| Hastings | Billa Flint | Reformer |
| Huron | William Cayley | Conservative |
| Kent | Malcolm Cameron | Reformer |
| Kingston | John A. Macdonald | Conservative |
| Lanark | Robert Bell | Reformer |
| Leeds | William Buell Richards | Reformer |
| Lennox & Addington | Benjamin Seymour | Conservative |
| Lincoln | William Hamilton Merritt | Reformer |
| London | John Wilson | Conservative |
| Middlesex | William Notman | Reformer |
| Niagara (town) | Walter Hamilton Dickson | |
| Norfolk | Henry John Boulton | Reformer |
| Northumberland | Adam H Meyers | |
| Oxford | Francis Hincks | Reformer |
| Peterborough | James Hall | |
| Prescott | Thomas H Johnston | |
| Prince Edward | David Barker Stevenson | Conservative |
| Russell | George Byron Lyon-Fellowes | |
| Simcoe | William Benjamin Robinson | Conservative |
| Stormont | Alexander McLean | |
| Toronto | William Henry Boulton | Conservative |
| Toronto | Henry Sherwood | Conservative |
| Waterloo | James Webster | Conservative |
| | Adam Johnston Fergusson (1849) | Reformer |
| Welland | Duncan McFarland | |
| Wentworth | Harmannus Smith | |
| East York | William Hume Blake | Reformer |
| | Peter Perry (1850) | Clear Grit |
| North York | Robert Baldwin | Reformer |
| South York | James Hervey Price | Reformer |
| West York | Joseph Curran Morrison | Reformer |