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The '8th Parliament of the Province of Canada' was in session from 1863 to July 1866. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in August 1863. Sessions were held in Quebec City until 1866; the last session was held in Ottawa.

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Canada East

Canada West

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Canada East

Riding	Member	Party
Argenteuil	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott	Liberal
Bagot	Maurice Laframboise	Rouge
Beauce	Henri-Elzéar Taschereau	Bleu
Beauharnois	Paul Denis	Bleu
Bellechasse	Édouard Rémillard	Rouge
Berthier	Anselme-Homère Pâquet	Rouge
Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Bleu
Brome	Christopher Dunkin	Conservative
Chambly	Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville	Bleu
Champlain	John Jones Ross	Bleu
Charlevoix	Adolphe Gagnon	Rouge
Châteauguay	Luther Hamilton Holton	Rouge
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	David Edward Price	Conservative
	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay (1865)	Liberal
Compton	John Henry Pope	Conservative
Deux-Montagnes	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Reformer
Dorchester	Hector-Louis Langevin	Bleu
Drummond—Arthabaska	Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion	Rouge
Gaspé	John Le Boutillier	Bleu
Hochelaga	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Rouge
Huntingdon	Robert Brown Somerville	Independent
Iberville	Alexandre Dufresne	Rouge
Jacques-Cartier	François-Zéphirin Tassé	Bleu
	Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher (1864)	Bleu
Joliette	Hippolite Cornellier	Bleu
Kamouraska	Jean-Charles Chapais	Bleu
Laprairie	Alfred Pinsonneault	Bleu
L'Assomption	Louis Archambeault	Rouge
Laval	Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose	Bleu
Lévis	Joseph-Godric Blanchet	Bleu
L'Islet	Louis-Bonaventure Caron	Rouge
Lotbinière	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Rouge
Maskinongé	Moïse Houde	Rouge
Mégantic	George Irvine	Conservative
Missisquoi	James O'Halloran	Rouge
Montcalm	Joseph Dufresne	Bleu
Montmagny	Joseph-Octave Beaubien	Bleu
Montmorency	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Bleu
Montreal Centre	John Rose	Conservative
Montreal East	George-Étienne Cartier	Bleu
Montreal West	Thomas D'Arcy McGee	Conservative
Napierville	Sixte Coupal dit la Reine	Rouge
Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Bleu
Ottawa	Alonzo Wright	Conservative
Pontiac	John Poupore	Bleu
Portneuf	Jean-Docile Brousseau	Liberal-Conservative
Quebec County	François Évanturel	Liberal
Quebec-Centre	Isidore Thibaudeau	Rouge
Quebec West	Charles Joseph Alleyn	Conservative
Quebec East	Pierre-Gabriel Huot	Rouge
Richelieu	Joseph-Xavier Perrault	Rouge
Richmond—Wolfe	William Hoste Webb	Conservative
Rimouski	George Sylvain	Bleu
Rouville	Joseph-Napoléon Poulin	Bleu
St. Hyacinthe	Louis-Victor Sicotte	Bleu
	Rémi Raymond (1863)	Bleu
Saint-Jean	François Bourassa	Rouge
Saint-Maurice	Charles Gérin-Lajoie	Rouge
Shefford	Lucius Seth Huntington	Rouge
Sherbrooke	Alexander Tilloch Galt	Liberal-Conservative
Soulanges	William Duckett	Conservative
Stanstead	Albert Knight	Conservative
Témiscouata	Jean-Baptiste Pouliot	Rouge
Terrebonne	Louis Labrèche-Viger	Rouge
Trois-Rivières	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	Bleu
	Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville (1865)	Bleu
Vaudreuil	Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood	Conservative
Verchères	Félix Geoffrion	Rouge
Yamaska	Moïse Fortier	Rouge

Louis-Victor Sicotte accepted an appointment as a judge in 1863; Rémi Raymond was elected in a by-election in October 1863. David Edward Price resigned his seat in 1864 to run for a position in the Legislative Council; Pierre-Alexis Tremblay was elected in a by-election in January 1865. Joseph-Édouard Turcotte died in December 1864; Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville was elected in a by-election in January 1865. François-Zéphirin Tassé resigned his seat to accept the post of inspector of prisons; Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher was elected in a by-election in August 1864.

Canada West

Riding	Member	Party
East Brant	John Young Bown	Liberal-Conservative
West Brant	Edmund Burke Wood	Reformer
Brockville	Fitzwilliam Henry Chambers	Reformer
Carleton	William F Powell	Conservative
Cornwall	John Sandfield Macdonald	Reformer
Dundas	John Sylvester Ross	Conservative
East Durham	John Shuter Smith	Reformer
West Durham	Henry Munro	Reformer
East Elgin	Leonidas Burwell	Reformer
West Elgin	John Scoble	Reform
Essex	Arthur Rankin	Reformer
Frontenac	William Ferguson	Conservative
Glengarry	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Reformer
Grenville	Walter Shanly	Liberal-Conservative
Grey	George Jackson	Conservative
Haldimand	David Thompson	Reformer
Halton	John White	Reformer
Hamilton	Isaac Buchanan	Conservative
	Charles Magill (1866)	Liberal
North Hastings	Thomas Campbell Wallbridge	Reformer
South Hastings	Lewis Wallbridge	Reformer
Huron & Bruce	James Dickson	Reformer
Kent	Archibald McKellar	Reformer
Kingston	John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative
Lambton	Alexander Mackenzie	Reformer
North Lanark	Robert Bell	Reformer
	William McDougall (1864)	Reformer
South Lanark	Alexander Morris	Conservative
North Leeds & Grenville	Francis Jones	Reformer
South Leeds	Albert Norton Richards	Reformer
	David Ford Jones (1864)
Lennox & Addington	Richard John Cartwright	Conservative
Lincoln	William McGiverin	Reformer
London	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative
East Middlesex	Crowell Willson	Reformer
West Middlesex	Thomas Scatcherd	Reformer
Niagara (town)	John Simpson	Conservative
	Angus Morrison (1864)	Reformer
Norfolk	Aquila Walsh	Conservative
East Northumberland	James Lyons Biggar	Reformer
West Northumberland	James Cockburn	Liberal-Conservative
North Ontario	William McDougall	Reformer
	Matthew Crooks Cameron (1864)	Conservative
South Ontario	Oliver Mowat	Reformer
	Thomas Nicholson Gibbs (1864)	Reformer
Ottawa	Joseph Merrill Currier	Conservative
North Oxford	Hope Fleming Mackenzie	Reformer
	Thomas Oliver (1866)	Reformer
South Oxford	George Brown	Reformer
Peel	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative
Perth	Robert MacFarlane	Reformer
Peterborough	Wilson Seymour Conger	Independent
	Frederick W. Haultain (1864)	Conservative
Prescott	Thomas Higginson	Conservative
Prince Edward	Walter Ross	Reformer
Renfrew	Robert McIntyre	Reformer
Russell	Robert Bell	Conservative
North Simcoe	Thomas David McConkey	Reformer
South Simcoe	Thomas Roberts Ferguson	Conservative
Stormont	Samuel Ault	Reformer
East Toronto	Alexander Mortimer Smith	Reformer
West Toronto	John Macdonald	Reformer
Victoria	James W Dunsford	Reformer
North Waterloo	Michael Hamilton Foley	Reformer
	Isaac Erb Bowman (1864)	Reformer
South Waterloo	James Cowan	Reformer
Welland	Thomas Clark Street	Conservative
North Wellington	Thomas Sutherland Parker	Reformer
South Wellington	David Stirton	Reformer
North Wentworth	William Notman	Reformer
	James McMonies (1865)	Reformer
South Wentworth	Joseph Rymal	Reformer
East York	Amos Wright	Reformer
North York	James Pearson Wells	Reform
West York	William Pearce Howland	Reformer

Oliver Mowat received an appointment; Thomas Nicholson Gibbs was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1864. William McDougall accepted an appointment and was defeated by Matthew Crooks Cameron in a by-election in July 1864. Robert Bell resigned his seat to allow William McDougall to be elected in November 1864. John Simpson resigned in 1864; Angus Morrison was elected in a by-election in September 1864. Isaac Buchanan resigned in 1865; Charles Magill was elected in a by-election in 1866. Wilson Seymour Conger died in 1864; Frederick W. Haultain was elected to the seat in a by-election in the same year. Michael Hamilton Foley was forced to seek reelection due to an appointment; Isaac Erb Bowman was elected in a by-election in April 1864. Albert Norton Richards was appointed Solicitor-General for Canada West; David Ford Jones was elected in a by-election in January 1864. Hope Fleming Mackenzie died in 1866; Thomas Oliver was elected in a by-election in the same year.

References

★ ''Upper Canadian politics in the 1850's'', Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)

External links

★ Ontario's parliament buildings ; or, A century of legislation, 1792-1892 : a historical sketch

★ Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)