# Rouville (Province of Canada electoral district)

Rouville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East (now Quebec). It was located in a rural area south of Montreal, bordering on the Richelieu River. The district was created in 1841 and was based on the previous electoral district of the same name for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. It was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.
In 1853, the provincial Parliament redrew the electoral map. The boundaries for Rouville were altered to some extent in the new map, which came into force for the 1854 general elections.
The electoral district was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.

## Boundaries

The electoral district of Rouville was south of Montreal (now in Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality), extending to the border with the United States.

### 1841 to 1854

The Union Act, 1840, passed by the British Parliament, merged the two provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished.
The Union Act provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Lower Canada and Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new Parliament, unless altered by the Union Act itself. The Rouville electoral district of Lower Canada was not altered by the Act, and therefore continued with the same boundaries which had been set by a statute of Lower Canada in 1829:

### 1854 to 1867

In 1853, the Parliament of the Province of Canada passed a new electoral map. The boundaries of Rouville were altered to some extent by the new map, which came into force in the general elections of 1854:

## Members of the Legislative Assembly (1841–1867)

Rouville was a single-member constituency.
The following were the members of the Legislative Assembly for Rouville. The party affiliations are based on the biographies of individual members given by the National Assembly of Quebec, as well as votes in the Legislative Assembly. "Party" was a fluid concept, especially during the early years of the Province of Canada.
| Parliament | Members | Members | Years in Office | Party | Party |
| 1st Parliament 1841–1844 | Melchior-Alphonse d'Irumberry de Salaberry | | 1841–1842 | Unionist and Government supporter | |
| 1st Parliament 1841–1844 | William Walker | William Walker | 1842–1843 (by-election) | "British" Tory | "British" Tory |
| 1st Parliament 1841–1844 | Timothée Franchère | Timothée Franchère | 1843—1844 (by-election) | French-Canadian Group | French-Canadian Group |
| 2nd Parliament 1844–1847 | Timothée Franchère | Timothée Franchère | 1844–1847 | French-Canadian Group | French-Canadian Group |
| 3rd Parliament 1848–1851 | Pierre Davignon | 1848–1851 | French-Canadian Group | French-Canadian Group | |
| 4th Parliament 1851–1853 | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | 1851–1853 | Ministerialist | Ministerialist |
| 5th Parliament 1854–1857 | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | 1854–1856 | Ministerialist | Ministerialist |
| 5th Parliament 1854–1857 | William Henry Chaffers | | 1856–1857 (by-election) | Rouge | Rouge |
| 6th Parliament 1858–1861 | Thomas Edmund Campbell | | 1858–1861 | Conservative | Conservative |
| 7th Parliament 1861–1863 | Lewis Thomas Drummond | | 1861–1863 | Rouge | Rouge |
| 8th Parliament 1863–1867 | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | Joseph-Napoléon Poulin | 1863–1867 | Confederation; Bleu | |