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Legislative Council of Lower Canada

Legislative Council of Lower Canada

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The Legislative Council of Lower Canada was the upper house of the Parliament of Lower Canada from 1792 until 1838. The Legislative Council consisted of appointed councillors who voted on bills passed up by the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. The legislative council was created by the Constitutional Act. Many of the members first called in the Council in 1792 had served as councillors in the Council for the Affairs of the Province of Quebec.

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The council came to be dominated by the Château Clique, members of the province's most powerful families who were generally interested in preserving the status quo. Both the upper and lower houses were dissolved on March 27, 1838 following the Lower Canada Rebellion and Lower Canada was administered by an appointed Special Council.

Following the Act of Union in 1840, the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada was created in 1841.

Legislative buildings

List of Members of the Legislative Council

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Speakers

During much of the existence of the Legislative Council, the Chief Justice served as Speaker and others appointed to the role in absence of the Chief Justice.[7]

After the Rebellion, the Speaker was a member of the Special Council of Lower Canada:

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Notes

Unless otherwise noted, the member died in office.

  1. [1]
    named to council but died before being sworn into office
  2. [2]
    resigned
  3. [3]
    Council dissolved on March 27, 1838
  4. [4]
    named to Special Council
  5. [5]
    declined invitation to serve on Special Council
  6. [6]
    named to Legislative Council but refused to join
  7. [7]
    Journals of the Legislative Council of the province of Lower Canada, being the fourth session of the fifteenth provincial Parliament. 1837. pp. 19–20.
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