# 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada

The 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada was summoned in August 1863, following the general election for the Legislative Assembly in August 1863. The Parliament was abolished when the British North America Act, 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867) came into force on July 1, 1867, creating the new country of Canada.
The members were elected in a mixture of multi-member districts (four in East Canada, ten in West Canada), each electing two members, and single-member districts, using Block voting and first past the post respectively.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was Lewis Wallbridge.
The first session of this Parliament sat from 13 August 1863 to 15 October 1863. Sessions were held in Quebec City until the fourth session 8 August 1865 to 18 September 1865.
The fifth and last session was held in Ottawa in the newly completed Parliament building 8 June 1866 to 15 August 1866. This was the last session of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. Following Confederation the following year, it was succeeded by the 1st Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Toronto, the 1st Quebec Legislature in Quebec City, and the 1st Canadian Parliament in Ottawa.
Most members went on to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, while others served at provincial level either in Quebec or Ontario, were appointed to the Senate of Canada, as a provincial Lieutenant Governor or to another government post, or retired from politics altogether.

## 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 | Anselme-Homère Pâquet | Rouge |
| Bonaventure | Théodore Robitaille | Bleu |
| Brome | Christopher Dunkin | Conservative |
| Chambly | Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville | Bleu |
| Champlain | John Jones Ross | Bleu |
| Charlevoix | Adolphe Gagnon | Rouge |
| Châteauguay | Luther Hamilton Holton | Rouge |
| Chicoutimi—Saguenay | David Edward Price | Conservative |
| Chicoutimi—Saguenay | Pierre-Alexis Tremblay (1865) | Liberal |
| 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 | Antoine-Aimé Dorion | Rouge |
| Huntingdon | Robert Brown Somerville | Independent |
| Iberville | Alexandre Dufresne | Rouge |
| Jacques-Cartier | François-Zéphirin Tassé | Bleu |
| Jacques-Cartier | Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher (1864) | Bleu |
| Joliette | Hippolite Cornellier | Bleu |
| Kamouraska | Jean-Charles Chapais | Bleu |
| Laprairie | Alfred Pinsonneault | Bleu |
| L'Assomption | Louis Archambeault | Rouge |
| Laval | Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose | Bleu |
| Lévis | Joseph-Godric Blanchet | Bleu |
| L'Islet | Louis-Bonaventure Caron | Rouge |
| Lotbinière | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière | Rouge |
| Maskinongé | Moïse Houde | Rouge |
| Mégantic | George Irvine | Conservative |
| Missisquoi | James O'Halloran | Rouge |
| Montcalm | Joseph Dufresne | 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 | Conservative |
| Napierville | Sixte Coupal dit la Reine | Rouge |
| Nicolet | Joseph Gaudet | Bleu |
| Ottawa | Alonzo Wright | Conservative |
| Pontiac | John Poupore | Bleu |
| Portneuf | Jean-Docile Brousseau | Liberal-Conservative |
| Quebec County | François Évanturel | Liberal |
| Quebec-Centre | Isidore Thibaudeau | Rouge |
| Quebec West | Charles Joseph Alleyn | Conservative |
| Quebec East | Pierre-Gabriel Huot | Rouge |
| Richelieu | Joseph-Xavier Perrault | Rouge |
| Richmond—Wolfe | William Hoste Webb | Conservative |
| Rimouski | George Sylvain | Bleu |
| Rouville | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | Bleu |
| St. Hyacinthe | Louis-Victor Sicotte | Bleu |
| St. Hyacinthe | Rémi Raymond (1863) | Bleu |
| Saint-Jean | François Bourassa | Rouge |
| Saint-Maurice | Charles Gérin-Lajoie | Rouge |
| Shefford | Lucius Seth Huntington | Rouge |
| Sherbrooke | Alexander Tilloch Galt | Liberal-Conservative |
| Soulanges | William Duckett | Conservative |
| Stanstead | Albert Knight | Conservative |
| Témiscouata | Jean-Baptiste Pouliot | Rouge |
| Terrebonne | Louis Labrèche-Viger | Rouge |
| Trois-Rivières | Joseph-Édouard Turcotte | Bleu |
| Trois-Rivières | Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville (1865) | Bleu |
| Vaudreuil | Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood | Conservative |
| Verchères | Félix Geoffrion | Rouge |
| Yamaska | Moïse Fortier | Rouge |

## Canada West - 65 Seats

| Riding | Member | Party |
| East Brant | John Young Bown | Liberal-Conservative |
| West Brant | Edmund Burke Wood | Reformer |
| Brockville | Fitzwilliam Henry Chambers | Reformer |
| 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 | John Scoble | Reform |
| Essex | Arthur Rankin | Reformer |
| Frontenac | William Ferguson | Conservative |
| Glengarry | Donald Alexander Macdonald | Reformer |
| Grenville | Walter Shanly | Liberal-Conservative |
| Grey | George Jackson | Conservative |
| Haldimand | David Thompson | Reformer |
| Halton | John White | Reformer |
| Hamilton | Isaac Buchanan | Conservative |
| Hamilton | Charles Magill (1866) | Liberal |
| North Hastings | Thomas Campbell Wallbridge | Reformer |
| 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 | Reformer |
| North Lanark | William McDougall (1864) | Reformer |
| South Lanark | Alexander Morris | Conservative |
| North Leeds & Grenville | Francis Jones | Reformer |
| South Leeds | Albert Norton Richards | Reformer |
| South Leeds | David Ford Jones (1864) | |
| Lennox & Addington | Richard John Cartwright | Conservative |
| Lincoln | William McGiverin | Reformer |
| London | John Carling | Liberal-Conservative |
| East Middlesex | Crowell Willson | Reformer |
| West Middlesex | Thomas Scatcherd | Reformer |
| Niagara (town) | John Simpson | Conservative |
| Niagara (town) | Angus Morrison (1864) | Reformer |
| Norfolk | Aquila Walsh | Conservative |
| East Northumberland | James Lyons Biggar | Reformer |
| West Northumberland | James Cockburn | Liberal-Conservative |
| North Ontario | William McDougall | Reformer |
| North Ontario | Matthew Crooks Cameron (1864) | Conservative |
| South Ontario | Oliver Mowat | Reformer |
| South Ontario | Thomas Nicholson Gibbs (1864) | Reformer |
| Ottawa | Joseph Merrill Currier | Conservative |
| North Oxford | Hope Fleming Mackenzie | Reformer |
| North Oxford | Thomas Oliver (1866) | Reformer |
| South Oxford | George Brown | Reformer |
| Peel | John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative |
| Perth | Robert MacFarlane | Reformer |
| Peterborough | Wilson Seymour Conger | Independent |
| Peterborough | Frederick W. Haultain (1864) | Conservative |
| Prescott | Thomas Higginson | Conservative |
| Prince Edward | Walter Ross | Reformer |
| Renfrew | Robert McIntyre | Reformer |
| Russell | Robert Bell | Conservative |
| North Simcoe | Thomas David McConkey | Reformer |
| South Simcoe | Thomas Roberts Ferguson | Conservative |
| Stormont | Samuel Ault | Reformer |
| East Toronto | Alexander Mortimer Smith | Reformer |
| West Toronto | John Macdonald | Reformer |
| Victoria | James W Dunsford | Reformer |
| North Waterloo | Michael Hamilton Foley | Reformer |
| North Waterloo | Isaac Erb Bowman (1864) | Reformer |
| South Waterloo | James Cowan | Reformer |
| Welland | Thomas Clark Street | Conservative |
| North Wellington | Thomas Sutherland Parker | Reformer |
| South Wellington | David Stirton | Reformer |
| North Wentworth | William Notman | Reformer |
| North Wentworth | James McMonies (1865) | Reformer |
| South Wentworth | Joseph Rymal | Reformer |
| East York | Amos Wright | Reformer |
| North York | James Pearson Wells | Reform |
| West York | William Pearce Howland | Reformer |