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The '1st Parliament of the Province of Canada' was in session from June 15 1841 to 1843. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in April 1841. All sessions were held at Kingston, Canada West.
In 1841, the District Councils Act was passed which established a system of local government in Canada West based on district councils. Prior to 1841, local affairs were dealt with by the District Court of Quarter Sessions.

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Canada East

Canada West

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Canada East

Riding	Member	Party
Beauharnois	John William Dunscomb	Conservative
	Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1842)	Independent
Bellechasse	Augustin-Guillaume Ruel	Patriote
	Abraham Turgeon (1842)	Patriote
Berthier	David Morrison Armstrong	Patriote
Bonaventure	John Robinson Hamilton	Independent
Chambly	John Yule	Conservative
	Louis Lacoste (1843)	Patriote
Champlain	René-Joseph Kimber	Patriote
	Henry Judah (1843)	Liberal
Deux-Montagnes	Colin Robertson (died 1842)	Conservative
	Charles John Forbes (1842)	Conservative
Dorchester	Antoine-Charles Taschereau	Patriote
Drummond	Robert Nugent Watts	Conservative
Gaspé	Robert Christie	Independent
Huntingdon	Austin Cuvillier	Patriote
Kamouraska	Amable Berthelot	Patriote
Leinster	Jean-Moïse Raymond	Patriote
	Jacob De Witt (1842)	Patriote
L'Islet	Étienne-Paschal Taché	Patriote
Lotbinière	Jean-Baptiste-Isaïe Noël	Patriote
Mégantic	Dominick Daly	Conservative
Missisquoi	Robert Jones	Conservative
Montmorency	Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel	Patriote
Montréal	Benjamin Holmes	Conservative
Montréal	George Moffatt	Conservative
	Pierre Beaubien (1843)	Patriote
Montréal (county)	Alexandre-Maurice Delisle	Conservative
	André Jobin (1843)	Reform
Nicolet	Augustin-Norbert Morin	Patriote
	Louis-Michel Viger (1842)	Patriote
Ottawa	Charles Dewey Day	Conservative
	Denis-Benjamin Papineau (1842)	Reformer
Portneuf	Thomas Cushing Aylwin	Patriote
Quebec County	John Neilson	Reformer
Quebec City	David Burnet	Independent
	Jean Chabot (1843)	Patriote
Quebec City	Henry Black	Conservative
Richelieu	Denis-Benjamin Viger	Patriote
Rimouski	Michel Borne	Patriote
	Robert Baldwin (1843)	Reformer
Rouville	Melchior-Alphonse de Salaberry	Conservative
	William Walker (1842)	Conservative
	Timothée Franchère (1843)	Patriote
Saguenay	Étienne Parent	Patriote
	Augustin-Norbert Morin	Patriote
Saint-Hyacinthe	Thomas Boutillier	Patriote
Saint-Maurice	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	Patriote
Shefford	Sewell Foster	Conservative
Sherbrooke	Edward Hale	Conservative
Stanstead	Marcus Child	Conservative
Terrebonne	Michael McCulloch	Conservative
Trois-Rivières	Charles Richard Ogden	Conservative
Vaudreuil	John Simpson	Conservative
Verchères	Henri Desrivières	Patriote
	James Leslie	Patriote
Yamaska	Joseph-Guillaume Barthe	Patriote

John William Dunscomb resigned in October 1842; Edward Gibbon Wakefield was elected in a by-election in November 1842. Augustin-Guillaume Ruel resigned in January 1842 to accept an appointment; Abraham Turgeon was elected to the seat in a by-election in June 1842. John Yule resigned in 1843 and Louis Lacoste was elected in a by-election. Charles Dewey Day accepted an appointment to the Court of Queen's Bench; Denis-Benjamin Papineau was elected to the seat in a by-election. Henri Desrivières resigned in November 1841 and James Leslie won the seat in a by-election in December. Charles John Forbes was elected in a by-election in April 1842 after the death of Colin Robertson. Jean-Moïse Raymond resigned to accept an appointment; Jacob De Witt won the seat in a by-election in August 1842. Melchior-Alphonse de Salaberry accepted an appointment in 1842; William Walker was elected in a by-election held in July 1842. Michel Borne resigned his seat in December 1842 to allow Robert Baldwin, who had been defeated in a by-election, to run for his seat in 1843. Augustin-Norbert Morin resigned in January 1842 to accept a post as judge; after resigning, he was elected in a by-election in November 1842 when Étienne Parent resigned his seat for an appointment. Louis-Michel Viger was elected in a by-election in February 1842. George Moffatt resigned in October 1843; Pierre Beaubien was elected to the seat in November 1843. Alexandre-Maurice Delisle resigned his seat to accept an appointment; André Jobin was elected in a by-election in October 1843. René-Joseph Kimber resigned his seat to accept an appointment to the Legislative Council; Henry Judah was elected in a by-election in September 1843. David Burnet resigned in August 1843 after declaring bankruptcy; Jean Chabot was elected in a by-election in September 1843. William Walker resigned in August 1843 due to illness; Timothée Franchère was elected in a by-election in September 1843.

Canada West

Riding	Member	Party
Brockville	George Sherwood	Tory
Bytown	Stewart Derbishire	Conservative
Carleton	James Johnston	Reformer
Cornwall	Solomon Yeomans Chesley	Conservative
Dundas	John Cook
Durham	John Tucker Williams	Tory
Essex	John Prince
Frontenac	Henry Smith, Jr	Conservative
Glengarry	John Sandfield Macdonald	Reformer
Grenville	Samuel Crane	Reformer
Haldimand	David Thompson
East Halton	Caleb Hopkins	Reformer
West Halton	James Durand, Jr.	Reformer
Hamilton	Allan Napier MacNab	Conservative
Hastings	Robert Baldwin	Reformer
	Edmund Murney (1842)	Conservative
Huron	James McGill Strachan	Conservative
	William Dunlop	Conservative
Kent	Joseph Woods	Conservative
Kingston	Anthony Manahan	Conservative
	Samuel Bealey Harrison (1841)	Reformer
Lanark	Malcolm Cameron	Reformer
Leeds	James Morris	Reformer
Lennox & Addington	John Solomon Cartwright	Conservative
North Lincoln County	William Hamilton Merritt	Reformer
South Lincoln	David Thorburn
London	Hamilton Hartley Killaly
	Lawrence Lawrason (1844)
Middlesex	Thomas Parke	Reformer
Niagara (town)	Henry John Boulton	Independent
Norfolk	Israel Wood Powell
North Northumberland	John Gilchrist	Reformer
South Northumberland	George Boswell
Oxford	Francis Hincks	Reformer
Prescott	Donald Macdonald
Prince Edward	John Philip Roblin	Reformer
Russell	William Henry Draper	Conservative
	William Stewart (1843)	Conservative
Simcoe	Elmes Yelverton Steele	Reformer
Stormont	Alexander McLean	Conservative
Toronto	Isaac Buchanan	Reformer
	Henry Sherwood (1843)	Conservative
Toronto	John Henry Dunn	Reformer
Wentworth	Harmannus Smith
1st York	James Hervey Price
2nd York	George Duggan	Conservative
3rd York	James Edward Small	Reformer
4th York	Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine	Reformer

The election of James McGill Strachan was protested by William Dunlop, who was awarded the seat. Robert Baldwin was elected in both Hastings and 4th York; Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine was elected in a by-election in 4th York. Anthony Manahan resigned his seat in 1841 to allow Samuel Bealey Harrison to sit in the assembly. Isaac Buchanan resigned in 1843 and was replaced by Henry Sherwood in a by-election held in March 1843. William Stewart was elected in a by-election held in 1843 after William Henry Draper's appointment to the Legislative Council. Robert Baldwin lost his seat in a by-election required due to his appointment to cabinet. Hamilton Hartley Killaly resigned his seat in 1843 and Lawrence Lawrason was elected in a January 1844 by-election.
|- |style="text-align: center;"
| width="30%" style="text-align: center;"|Preceded by:
13th Parliament of Upper Canada
|width="40%" style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2"|Parliaments in the Province of Canada
1841-1844
|width="30%" align="center" rowspan="2"|Succeeded by:
2nd Parliament of the Province of Canada
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|width="30%" align="center"|Preceded by:
15th Parliament of Lower Canada

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)