# 16th Quebec Legislature

The 16th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from February 5, 1923, to May 16, 1927. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the governing party.

## Seats per political party

* After the 1923 elections
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Liberal | 63 |
| | Conservative | 20 |
| | Parti ouvrier | 1 |
| | Liberal Independent | 1 |
| Total | Total | 85 |
| Government Majority | Government Majority | 43 |

## Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1923 election:
| Name | Party | Riding | First elected / previously elected |
| Joseph-Édouard Perrault | Liberal | Abitibi | 1916 |
| Hector Authier (1923) | Liberal | Abitibi | 1923 |
| John Hay | Liberal | Argenteuil | 1910, 1916 |
| Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques (1925) | Conservative | Argenteuil | 1925 |
| Joseph-Édouard Perrault | Liberal | Arthabaska | 1916 |
| Joseph-Émery Phaneuf | Liberal | Bagot | 1913 |
| Joseph-Hugues Fortier | Liberal | Beauce | 1921 |
| Arthur Plante | Conservative | Beauharnois | 1898, 1908, 1923 |
| Antonin Galipeault | Liberal | Bellechasse | 1909 |
| Siméon Lafrenière | Liberal | Berthier | 1919 |
| Amédée Sylvestre (1925) | Liberal | Berthier | 1925 |
| Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud | Liberal | Bonaventure | 1914 |
| Pierre-Émile Côté (1924) | Liberal | Bonaventure | 1924 |
| William Robert Oliver | Liberal | Brome | 1917 |
| Carlton James Oliver (1923) | Liberal | Brome | 1923 |
| Alexandre Thurber | Liberal | Chambly | 1923 |
| Bruno Bordeleau | Liberal | Champlain | 1916 |
| William-Pierre Grant (1925) | Liberal | Champlain | 1925 |
| Philippe Dufour | Liberal | Charlevoix et Saguenay | 1919 |
| Honoré Mercier Jr. | Liberal | Châteauguay | 1907, 1908 |
| Gustave Delisle | Liberal | Chicoutimi | 1923 |
| Jacob Nicol | Liberal | Compton | 1921 |
| Arthur Sauvé | Conservative | Deux-Montagnes | 1908 |
| Ernest Ouellet | Liberal | Dorchester | 1917 |
| Hector Laferté | Liberal | Drummond | 1916 |
| Cyrille Baillargeon | Liberal | Frontenac | 1923 |
| Gustave Lemieux | Liberal | Gaspé | 1912 |
| Joseph-Roméo Lafond | Liberal | Hull | 1923 |
| Andrew Philps | Liberal | Huntingdon | 1913 |
| Lucien Lamoureux | Liberal | Iberville | 1923 |
| Joseph-Édouard Caron | Liberal | Îles-de-la-Madeleine | 1902 |
| Ésioff-Léon Patenaude | Conservative | Jacques-Cartier | 1908, 1923 |
| Victor Marchand (1925) | Liberal | Jacques-Cartier | 1925 |
| Pierre-Joseph Dufresne | Conservative | Joliette | 1919 |
| Nérée Morin | Liberal | Kamouraska | 1920 |
| Pierre Lortie | Liberal | Labelle | 1923 |
| Émile Moreau | Liberal | Lac-Saint-Jean | 1919 |
| Walter Reed | Liberal | L'Assomption | 1908 |
| Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr. | Conservative | Laval | 1919 |
| Alfred-Valère Roy | Liberal | Lévis | 1916 |
| Élisée Thériault | Liberal | L'Islet | 1916 |
| Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur | Liberal | Lotbinière | 1908 |
| Jean-Marie Pellerin | Conservative | Maisonneuve | 1923 |
| Rodolphe Tourville | Liberal | Maskinongé | 1912 |
| Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal | Matane | 1923 |
| Joseph Dufour | Liberal | Matapédia | 1919 |
| Lauréat Lapierre | Liberal | Mégantic | 1916 |
| Alexandre Saurette | Liberal | Missisquoi | 1919 |
| Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel | Liberal | Montcalm | 1917 |
| Charles-Abraham Paquet | Liberal | Montmagny | 1919 |
| Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | Liberal | Montmorency | 1900 |
| Ernest Tétreau | Liberal Independent | Montréal-Dorion | 1923 |
| Alfred Duranleau | Conservative | Montréal-Laurier | 1923 |
| Adolphe L'Archevêque | Conservative | Montréal-Mercier | 1923 |
| William James Hushion | Liberal | Montréal–Sainte-Anne | 1923 |
| Joseph Henry Dillon (1924) | Liberal | Montréal–Sainte-Anne | 1924 |
| Camillien Houde | Conservative | Montréal–Sainte-Marie | 1923 |
| Charles Ernest Gault | Conservative | Montréal–Saint-Georges | 1907 |
| Joseph Allan Bray | Conservative | Montréal–Saint-Henri | 1923 |
| Eusèbe Beaudoin | Conservative | Montréal–Saint-Jacques | 1923 |
| Ernest Walter Sayer | Conservative | Montréal–Saint-Laurent | 1923 |
| Peter Bercovitch | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Louis | 1916 |
| Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | Conservative | Montréal-Verdun | 1923 |
| Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau | Liberal | Napierville-Laprairie | 1923 |
| Joseph-Alcide Savoie | Liberal | Nicolet | 1917 |
| Désiré Lahaie | Liberal | Papineau | 1922 |
| Wallace McDonald | Liberal | Pontiac | 1919 |
| Édouard Hamel | Liberal | Portneuf | 1920 |
| Aurèle Leclerc | Liberal | Québec-Comté | 1916 |
| Ludger Bastien (1924) | Liberal | Québec-Comté | 1924 |
| Pierre-Vincent Faucher | Conservative | Québec-Centre | 1923 |
| Louis-Alfred Létourneau | Liberal | Québec-Est | 1908 |
| Martin Madden | Liberal | Québec-Ouest | 1916 |
| Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière | Liberal | Richelieu | 1923 |
| Georges-Ervé Denault | Liberal | Richmond | 1923 |
| Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais (1923) | Liberal | Richmond | 1923 |
| Louis-Joseph Moreault | Liberal | Rimouski | 1923 |
| Cyril-Améric Bernard | Liberal | Rouville | 1923 |
| Télesphore-Damien Bouchard | Liberal | Saint-Hyacinthe | 1912, 1923 |
| Alexis Bouthillier | Liberal | Saint-Jean | 1919 |
| Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard | Liberal | Saint-Maurice | 1920 |
| Alphonse-Edgar Guillemette (1924) | Liberal | Saint-Maurice | 1924 |
| Pierre Bertrand | Parti ouvrier | Saint-Sauveur | 1923 |
| William Stephen Bullock | Liberal | Shefford | 1912 |
| Moïse O'Bready | Conservative | Sherbrooke | 1923 |
| Armand-Charles Crépeau (1924) | Conservative | Sherbrooke | 1924 |
| Joseph-Arthur Lortie | Conservative | Soulanges | 1923 |
| Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet | Liberal | Stanstead | 1913 |
| Télésphore Simard | Liberal | Témiscamingue | 1916 |
| Joseph Miljours (1924) | Liberal | Témiscamingue | 1924 |
| Jules Langlais | Conservative | Témiscouata | 1923 |
| Athanase David | Liberal | Terrebonne | 1916 |
| Louis-Philippe Mercier | Liberal | Trois-Rivières | 1921 |
| Hormisdas Pilon | Liberal | Vaudreuil | 1901 |
| Jean-Marie Richard | Liberal | Verchères | 1921 |
| Charles Allan Smart | Conservative | Westmount | 1912 |
| Cyrénus Lemieux | Liberal | Wolfe | 1921 |
| Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette | Liberal | Yamaska | 1905 |
| David Laperrière (1923) | Liberal | Yamaska | 1923 |

## Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during the term in by-elections
* Hector Authier, Quebec Liberal Party, Abitibi, October 22, 1923
* Carlton James Oliver, Quebec Liberal Party, Brome, October 22, 1923
* Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais, Quebec Liberal Party, Richmond, October 22, 1923
* David Laperrière, Quebec Liberal Party, Yamaska, October 22, 1923
* Pierre-Émile Côté, Quebec Liberal Party, Bonaventure, November 5, 1924
* Ludger Bastien, Quebec Conservative Party, Québec, November 5, 1924
* Alphonse-Edgar Guillemette, Quebec Liberal Party, Saint-Maurice, November 5, 1924
* Armand-Charles Crépeau, Quebec Conservative Party, Sherbrooke, November 5, 1924
* Joseph Miljours, Quebec Liberal Party, Témiscamingue, November 28, 1924
* Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques, Quebec Conservative Party, Argenteuil, November 30, 1925
* Amédée Sylvestre, Quebec Liberal Party, Berthier, November 30, 1925
* William-Pierre Grant, Quebec Liberal Party, Champlain, November 30, 1925
* Victor Marchand, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques-Cartier, November 30, 1925

## Cabinet Ministers

* Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
* Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron
* Colonisation, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault
* Public Works and Labor: Antonin Galipeault
* Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
* Roads: Joseph-Léonide Perron
* Municipal Affairs: Jacob Nicol (1923-1924), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1924-1927)
* Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
* Provincial secretary: Athanase David
* Treasurer: Jacob Nicol
* Members without portfolios: Martin Madden, Laureat Lapierre (1924-1927), Joseph Henry Dillon (1927), Alfred Leduc (1927)