Chambly (Province of Canada electoral district)

Chambly was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East. It was created in 1841, based on the previous electoral district of the same name for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, for an area south of Montreal. It was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.

This article is about the pre-Confederation electoral district. For the successor federal electoral district, see Chambly—Borduas. For the successor provincial electoral district, see Chambly (provincial electoral district).
Chambly
Province of Canada electoral district
Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
District created1841
District abolished1867
First contested1841
Last contested1863

The electoral district was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.

Boundaries

The Union Act, 1840 merged the two provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished.[1]

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.[2] The Chambly 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:

The County of Chambly shall be bounded on the north west by the River Saint Lawrence, on the south east by the River Richelieu or Chambly, together with all the Islands in the River Saint Lawrence, and in the River Richelieu or Chambly, nearest to the said County, and in whole or in part fronting the same, on the south west by the north east boundaries of the Seigniories of Laprairie and De Lery, and on the north east by the County of Verchères comprehending the Seigniories of Boucherville, Montarville, Longueuil, Fief Trembly, Chambly West, and the Barony of Longueuil, within the said limits.[3]

The electoral district was located south of Montreal, in the Montérégie region. The elections were held at Longueuil.[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Chambly was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.[5] The following were the members of the Legislative Assembly from Chambly.

Parliament Years Members[6] Party[7]
1st Parliament
1841-1844		 1841-1843 John Yule[8] Unionist and Tory
1843-1844
(by-election)		 Louis Lacoste[9] Groupe canadien-français

Abolition

The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act, 1867 came into force, splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and Ontario.[10] It was succeeded by electoral districts of the same name in the House of Commons of Canada[11] and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.[12]

References
  1. Union Act, 1840, 3 & 4 Vict., c. 35, s. 2.
  2. Union Act, 1840, ss. 16, 18.
  3. An Act to make a new and more convenient subdivision of the Province into Counties, for the purpose of effecting a more equal Representation thereof in the Assembly than heretofore, SLC 1829, c. 73, s. 1, para. 22.
  4. An Act to make a new and more convenient subdivision of the Province into Counties, for the purpose of effecting a more equal Representation thereof in the Assembly than heretofore, SLC 1829, c. 73, s. 3.
  5. Union Act, 1840, s. 18.
  6. J.O. Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860, (Quebec: St. Michel and Darveau, 1860), pp. 43-58.
  7. See biographies of individual members for party affiliation: Québec Dictionary of Parliamentary Biography, from 1764 to the present.
  8. Côté, Appointments and Elections, p. 59, note (5).
  9. Côté, Appointments and Elections, p. 59, note (6).
  10. British North America Act, 1867 [now the Constitution Act, 1867, s. 6.
  11. Constitution Act, 1867, s. 40, para. 2
  12. Constitution Act, 1867, s. 80.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Statutes of Lower Canada, 13th Provincial Parliament, 2nd Session (1829), c. 74

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