12TH PARLIAMENT OF UPPER CANADA

The '12th Parliament of Upper Canada' was in session from January 15 1835 to May 28 1836. Elections in Upper Canada had been held in October 1834. All sessions were held at Toronto. Parliament was dissolved after a serious dispute with the new lieutenant governor, Sir Francis Bond Head, who ordered a new election. The assembly, dominated by reformers, had refused to pass any new money bills and had labelled Head a deceitful tyrant after he had invoked his right to consult the representatives of the people only on certain specific matters.
RidingMember
BrockvilleDavid Jones
CarletonEdward Malloch
CarletonJohn Bower Lewis
CornwallArchibald McLean
DundasPeter Shaver
DundasJohn Cook
DurhamGeorge Strange Boulton
DurhamJohn Brown
EssexFrancis Xavier Caldwell
EssexJohn Alexander Wilkinson
FrontenacJacob Shibley
FrontenacJohn Strange
GlengarryDonald Macdonell
GlengarryAlexander Chisholm
GrenvilleHiram Norton
GrenvilleWilliam Benjamin Wells
HaldimandWilliam Hamilton Merritt (Nov 1832)
HaltonCaleb Hopkins
HaltonJames Durand, Jr.
HamiltonAllan Napier MacNab
HastingsHenry W. Yager
HastingsJames Hunter Samson (d. 1836)
HuronRobert Graham Dunlop (July 1835)
KentWilliam McCrae
KentNathan Cornwall
KingstonChristopher Alexander Hagerman
LanarkWilliam Morris
Alexander Thom
LanarkJosias Tayler
LeedsOgle Robert Gowan (unseated)
William Buell (Apr 1836)
LeedsRobert Sympson Jameson (unseated)
Mathew M. Howard (Apr 1836)
Lennox & AddingtonMarshall Spring Bidwell
Lennox & AddingtonPeter Perry
1st Lincoln CountyDennis Wolverton
2nd LincolnGeorge Rykert
3rd LincolnJohn Johnston Lefferty (unseated)
David Thorburn (Feb 1835)
4th LincolnGilbert McMicking
MiddlesexThomas Parke
MiddlesexElias Moore
Niagara (town)Charles Richardson
NorfolkFrancis Leigh Walsh
NorfolkDavid Duncombe
NorthumberlandAlexander McDonell
NorthumberlandJohn Gilchrist
OxfordCharles Duncombe
OxfordRobert Alway
PrescottAlexander Macdonell (d. 1835)
John Chesser (Apr 1835)
PrescottCharles Waters
Prince EdwardJohn Philip Roblin
Prince EdwardJames Wilson
RussellThomas McKay
SimcoeWilliam Benjamin Robinson
SimcoeSamuel Lount
StormontWilliam Bruce
StormontDonald Aeneas MacDonell
TorontoJames Edward Small
WentworthHarmannus Smith
WentworthJacob Rymal
1st YorkDavid Gibson
2nd YorkWilliam Lyon Mackenzie
3rd YorkThomas David Morrison
4th YorkJohn McIntosh

James Samson died while still in office on March 27 1836 and was not replaced. A separate riding was created for Huron in 1835. William Morris became a member of the Legislative Council in January 1836; Alexander Thom was elected in a by-election held in February 1836. Ogle Gowan and Robert Jameson were elected but the election was declared invalid due to violence at the polls; William Buell and Mathew Howard were elected in a by-election. John Lefferty's election was overturned on appeal and David Thorburn was declared elected. Alexander Macdonell died on February 16 1835 and was replaced by John Chesser.

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★ ''Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology'', Frederick H. Armstrong, Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1985. ISBN 0-919670-92-X

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