# 7th Parliament of the Province of Canada

The 7th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in July 1861, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in June 1861. It first met on July 15, 1861, and was dissolved in May 1863.
This was the first election in the Province of Canada to use a list of eligible voters prepared before the election. All sessions were held in Quebec City. The 7th Parliament ended following a vote of no confidence on May 8, 1863.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was Joseph-Édouard Turcotte.

## Canada East - 65 Seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| Argenteuil | John Joseph Caldwell Abbott | Liberal |
| Bagot | Maurice Laframboise | Rouge |
| Beauce | Henri-Elzéar Taschereau | Bleu |
| Beauharnois | Paul Denis | Bleu |
| Bellechasse | Édouard Rémillard | Rouge |
| Berthier | Pierre-Eustache Dostaler |
| Bonaventure | Théodore Robitaille | Bleu |
| Brome | Moses Sweet | |
| Brome | Christopher Dunkin (1862) | Conservative |
| Chambly | Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville | Bleu |
| Champlain | John Jones Ross | Bleu |
| Charlevoix | Adolphe Gagnon | Rouge |
| 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 | Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion | Rouge |
| Gaspé | John Le Boutillier | Bleu |
| Hochelaga | Paschal Falkner | Rouge |
| Hochelaga | Antoine-Aimé Dorion (1862) | Rouge |
| Huntingdon | Robert Brown Somerville | Independent |
| Iberville | Alexandre Dufresne | Rouge |
| Jacques-Cartier | François-Zéphirin Tassé | Bleu |
| Joliette | Joseph-Hilarion Jobin | Rouge |
| Kamouraska | Jean-Charles Chapais | Bleu |
| Laprairie | Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger | Independent |
| Laprairie | Alfred Pinsonneault (1863) | Bleu |
| L'Assomption | Alexandre Archambault | Rouge |
| Laval | Pierre Labelle | Bleu |
| Laval | Louis-Siméon Morin (1861) | Bleu |
| Lévis | Joseph-Godric Blanchet | Bleu |
| L'Islet | Charles-François Fournier | Bleu |
| Lotbinière | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière | Rouge |
| Maskinongé | George Caron | Bleu |
| Mégantic | Noël Hébert | Rouge |
| Missisquoi | James O'Halloran | Rouge |
| Montcalm | Jean-Louis Martin | |
| Montcalm | Joseph Dufresne (1862) | Bleu |
| Montmagny | Joseph-Octave Beaubien | Bleu |
| Montmorency | Joseph-Édouard Cauchon | Bleu |
| Montreal Centre | John Rose | Conservative |
| Montreal East | George-Étienne Cartier | Bleu |
| Montreal West | Thomas D'Arcy McGee | Rouge |
| Nicolet | Joseph Gaudet | Bleu |
| Napierville | Jacques-Olivier Bureau | Rouge |
| Napierville | Pierre Benoit (1862) | Route |
| Ottawa | William McDonell Dawson | Conservative |
| Pontiac | John Poupore | Bleu |
| Portneuf | Jean-Docile Brousseau | Liberal-Conservative |
| Quebec County | François Évanturel | Liberal |
| Quebec-Centre | Georges-Honoré Simard | Bleu |
| Quebec West | Charles Joseph Alleyn | Conservative |
| Quebec East | Pierre-Gabriel Huot | Rouge |
| Richelieu | Joseph Beaudreau | Bleu |
| Richmond—Wolfe | Charles de Cazes | Independent |
| Rimouski | George Sylvain | Liberal |
| Rouville | Lewis Thomas Drummond | Rouge |
| St. Hyacinthe | Louis-Victor Sicotte | Bleu |
| Saint-Jean | François Bourassa | Rouge |
| Saint-Maurice | Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers | Bleu |
| Shefford | Lucius Seth Huntington | Rouge |
| Sherbrooke | Alexander Tilloch Galt | Liberal-Conservative |
| Soulanges | Jean-Baptiste-Jules Prévost | Moderate |
| Stanstead | Albert Knight | Conservative |
| Témiscouata | Michel-Guillaume Baby | Bleu |
| Terrebonne | Louis Labrèche-Viger | Rouge |
| Trois-Rivières | Joseph-Édouard Turcotte | Bleu |
| Vaudreuil | Jean-Baptiste Mongenais | Bleu |
| Verchères | Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski | Rouge |
| Verchères | Charles-François Painchaud (1863) | |
| Yamaska | Moïse Fortier | Rouge |

## Canada West - 65 Seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| East Brant | John Young Bown | Reformer |
| West Brant | William Ryerson | Independent |
| Brockville | George Sherwood | Conservative |
| Carleton | William F. Powell | Conservative |
| Cornwall | John Sandfield Macdonald | Reformer |
| Dundas | John Sylvester Ross | Conservative |
| East Durham | John Shuter Smith | Reformer |
| West Durham | Henry Munro | Reformer |
| East Elgin | Leonidas Burwell | Reformer |
| West Elgin | George Macbeth | Conservative |
| | John Scoble (1863) | Reformer |
| Essex | Arthur Rankin | Reformer |
| | John O'Connor (1863) | Conservative |
| Frontenac | James Morton | Conservative |
| Glengarry | Donald Alexander Macdonald | Reformer |
| Grenville | William Patrick | Reformer |
| Grey | George Jackson | Conservative |
| Haldimand | Michael Harcourt | Reformer |
| Halton | John White | Reformer |
| Hamilton | Isaac Buchanan | Independent |
| North Hastings | George Benjamin | Conservative |
| South Hastings | Lewis Wallbridge | Reformer |
| Huron & Bruce | James Dickson | Reformer |
| Kent | Archibald McKellar | Reformer |
| Kingston | John A. Macdonald | Liberal-Conservative |
| Lambton | Alexander Mackenzie | Reformer |
| North Lanark | Robert Bell | Reform |
| South Lanark | Alexander Morris | Conservative |
| North Leeds & Grenville | Francis Jones | Conservative |
| South Leeds | Benjamin Tett | Conservative |
| Lennox & Addington | Augustus Frederick Garland Hooper | Conservative |
| Lincoln | John Charles Rykert | Liberal-Conservative |
| London | John Carling | Liberal-Conservative |
| East Middlesex | Maurice Berkeley Portman | Conservative |
| West Middlesex | Thomas Scatcherd | Reformer |
| Niagara (town) | John Simpson | Conservative |
| Norfolk | Aquila Walsh | Conservative |
| East Northumberland | James Lyons Biggar | Reformer |
| West Northumberland | James Cockburn | Conservative |
| North Ontario | Matthew Crooks Cameron | Conservative |
| South Ontario | Oliver Mowat | Reformer |
| Ottawa | Richard William Scott | Liberal-Conservative |
| North Oxford | William McDougall | Reformer |
| South Oxford | George Skeffington Connor | Reformer |
| | George Brown (1863) | Reformer |
| Peel | John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative |
| Perth | Michael Hamilton Foley | Reformer |
| | Thomas Mayne Daly (1862) | Liberal-Conservative |
| Peterborough | Frederick W. Haultain | Conservative |
| Prescott | Henry Wellesly McCann | Conservative |
| Prince Edward | William Anderson | Conservative |
| Renfrew | Daniel McLachlin | Liberal-Conservative |
| Russell | Robert Bell | Conservative |
| North Simcoe | Angus Morrison | Reformer |
| South Simcoe | Thomas Roberts Ferguson | Conservative |
| Stormont | Samuel Ault | Reformer |
| East Toronto | John Willoughby Crawford | Conservative |
| West Toronto | John Beverley Robinson | Conservative |
| Victoria | James W Dunsford | Liberal-Conservative |
| North Waterloo | Michael Hamilton Foley | Reform |
| South Waterloo | James Cowan | Reform |
| Welland | Thomas Clark Street | Conservative |
| North Wellington | William Clarke | Conservative |
| South Wellington | David Stirton | Reformer |
| North Wentworth | William Notman | Reformer |
| South Wentworth | Joseph Rymal | Reformer |
| East York | Amos Wright | Reformer |
| North York | Adam Wilson | Reformer |
| West York | William Pearce Howland | Reformer |