User:Mr Serjeant Buzfuz/Charlevoix (Province of Canada electoral district)

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This page is about the pre-Confederation electoral district. For the successor federal electoral district, see Charlevoix (federal electoral dist rict). For the successor provincial electoral district, see Charlevoix (provincial electoral dist rict).
Charlevoix
Canada East
Province of Canada electoral district
Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
District created1853
District abolished1867
First contested1854
Last contested1863

Charlevoix was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East, near XXX. It was created in 1853, in a redistribution of the electoral map. It was called "Saguenay electoral district" in the 1854 general elections, but was re-named "Charlevoix electoral district" by an amendment in 1855.

Charlevoix was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly. It was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.

Boundaries[edit]

In 1853, the Parliament of the Province of Canada passed a new electoral map. The 1841 Saguenay district was divided into three new districts, called Saguenay, Chicoutimi, and Tadousac. Those boundaries and names of the electoral districts were used in the 1854 general elections.

In 1855, the year after the elections, the provincial Parliament passed further amendments to the new electoral map. The new Saguenay electoral district was re-named the Charlevoix electoral district, but with no change to the 1853 boundaries. The Tadousac electoral district was re-named the Saguenay electoral district, but again, with no change to the 1853 boundaries.


The County of Saguenay shall be bounded on the north-west by a line to be drawn from Cap de l'Abattis on the River Saint Lawrence towards the north-west and parallel to the north-eastern line of the Seigniory of Beauport, to the County of Chicoutimi as above described,on the north by the Counties of Chicoutimi and Tadoussac as above described, on the south-east by the River Saint Lawrence ; the said County so bounded comprising the Parishes of Little River, Baie Saint Paul, Saint Urbain, Eboulements, Saint Iréné, Malbaie, Sainte Agnès, Saint Fidèle, the Townships of Settrington, De Sales, and Callières, Isle-aux-Coudres, Hare Island, and all the other tracts of land comprised within the above limits, and all Islands in the River Saint Lawrence nearest to the said County and wholly or partly opposite thereto.[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit]

Charlevoix was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.[2]

The following were the members for Charlevoix.

Parliament Years Members[3] Party[4]
1st Parliament
1841–1844 		1841–1844 XXX XXX XXX

Abolition[edit]

The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act, 1867 came into force, creating Canada and splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and Ontario.[5] It was succeeded by electoral districts of the same name and boundaries in the House of Commons of Canada[6] and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ An Act to enlarge the Representation of the People of this Province in Parliament, SProvC 1853, c. 152, s. 1(25).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference UA-18 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ J.O. Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860, (Quebec: St. Michel and Darveau, 1860), pp. 43-58.
  4. ^ See biographies of individual members for party affiliation: Québec Dictionary of Parliamentary Biography, from 1764 to the present.
  5. ^ British North America Act, 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867), s. 6.
  6. ^ Constitution Act, 1867, s. 40, para. 2
  7. ^ Constitution Act, 1867, s. 80.
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