# 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between June 25, 1925, through September 5, 1928. The first session of this assembly was convened on February 9, 1926. There were three sessions of the assembly during this period.
The election of 1925 represented a shift in Nova Scotia politics as the 37th General Assembly would mark the return of the Conservatives to government after a forty-three year absence.
One of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of this General Assembly is that of An Act Abolishing the Legislative Council and Amending the Constitution of the Province, in 1928. This act abolished the Legislative Council of the Nova Scotia Legislature, the legislature's upper house. When Rhodes came into office in 1926, it had only one Conservative member and 17 Liberal members, with three vacancies; Rhodes would ultimately appoint 15 new Councillors in order to pack the Council for means of abolition, while dismissing all but a handful of Liberal Councillors.

## Division of seats

There were 42 members of this General Assembly, elected in the 1925 Nova Scotia general election.
| | Leader | Party | # of Seats |
| | Edgar Nelson Rhodes | Liberal-Conservative | 38 |
| | Ernest Howard Armstrong | Liberal | 3 |
| | Archibald Terris | Labour-Conservative | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | 42 |

## List of members

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected / previously elected | Position |
| Annapolis County | Obediah Parker Goucher | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Annapolis County | Harry Thompson MacKenzie | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Antigonish County | William Chisholm | Liberal | 1916 | |
| Antigonish County | John Laughlin McIsaac | Liberal | 1925 | |
| Cape Breton Centre | Gordon Sidney Harrington | Conservative | 1925 | Minister of Public Works & Mines |
| Cape Breton Centre | Joseph Macdonald | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Cape Breton East | John Carey Douglas | Conservative | 1911, 1925 | Attorney General (1925-6) |
| Cape Breton East | Alexander O'Handley | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Colchester County | William Boardman Armstrong | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Colchester County | Frank Stanfield | Conservative | 1911, 1925 | |
| Cumberland County | Percy Chapman Black | Conservative | 1925 | Minister of Highways |
| Cumberland County | Daniel George McKenzie | Conservative | 1920 | Speaker (1925-6) |
| Cumberland County | Archibald Terris | Labour | 1920 | |
| Digby County | William Hudson Farnham | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Digby County | John Louis Philip Robicheau | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Guysborough County | Simon Osborn Giffin | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Guysborough County | Howard Amos Rice | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Halifax County | Josiah Frederick Fraser | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Halifax County | Alexander Montgomerie | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Halifax County | John Francis Mahoney | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Halifax County | John Archibald Walker | Conservative | 1925 | Minister of Natural Resources & Provincial Development |
| Halifax County | William Drysdale Piercey | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Hants County | Albert E. Parsons | Conservative | 1909, 1925 | Speaker (1926-8) |
| Hants County | Edgar Nelson Rhodes | Conservative | 1925 | Provincial Secretary & Premier |
| Inverness County | Hubert Meen Aucoin | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Inverness County | Malcolm McKay | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Kings County | George Clyde Nowlan | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Kings County | Reginald Tucker Caldwell | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Lunenburg County | Wallace Norman Rehfuss | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Lunenburg County | William Haslam Smith | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Pictou County | John Doull | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Pictou County | Robert Albert Douglas | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Pictou County | Hugh Allan MacQuarrie | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Queens County | Frank J.D. Barnjum | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Queens County | William Lorimer Hall | Conservative | 1910, 1925 | Attorney General (1926–1928) |
| Richmond County & Cape Breton West | Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc | Conservative | 1916 | |
| Richmond County & Cape Breton West | John Alexander MacDonald | Conservative | 1916 | |
| Richmond County & Cape Breton West | John Angus Stewart (1926) | Conservative | 1926 | |
| Shelburne County | Norman Emmons Smith | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Shelburne County | Ernest Reginald Nickerson | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Victoria County | Donald Buchanan McLeod | Liberal | 1925 | |
| Victoria County | Philip McLeod | Conservative | 1914, 1925 | |
| Yarmouth County | John Flint Cahan | Conservative | 1925 | |
| Yarmouth County | Raymond Neri d'Entremont | Conservative | 1925 | |

## Former members of the 37th General Assembly

| Name | Party | Electoral District | Cause of departure | Succeeded by | Elected |
| John Alexander MacDonald | Conservatives | Cape Breton West | resigned to run federally | John Angus Stewart, Con. | February 24, 1926 |
| Frank J.D. Barnjum | Conservatives | Queens County | resigned March 16, 1926 | N/A | N/A |
| John Carey Douglas | Conservatives | Cape Breton East | resigned to run federally | N/A | N/A |