6th Parliament of the Province of Canada

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The 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1858 to June 1861. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in December 1857. Sessions were held in Toronto in 1858 and then in Quebec City from 1859. In 1857, Queen Victoria had chosen Ottawa as the permanent seat for the Canadian government.

Canada East

Riding	Member	Party
Argenteuil	Sydney Robert Bellingham	Reformer
	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1860)	Liberal
Bagot	Maurice Laframboise	Rouge
Beauharnois	Gédéon Ouimet	Bleu
Bellechasse	Octave-Cyrille Fortier	Bleu
Berthier	Eugène-Urgel Piché	Rouge
Brome	James Moir Ferres	Conservative
Chambly	Louis Lacoste	Bleu
Champlain	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	Bleu
Charlevoix	Cléophe Cimon	Bleu
Châteauguay	Henry Starnes	Conservative
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	David Edward Price	Conservative
Compton	John Henry Pope	Conservative
Deux-Montagnes	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Reformer
Dorchester	Hector-Louis Langevin	Bleu
Drummond—Arthabaska	Christopher Dunkin	Conservative
Gaspé	John Le Boutillier	Reformer
Hochelaga	Joseph Laporte	Bleu
Huntingdon	Robert Brown Somerville	Independent
Iberville	Charles Laberge	Rouge
Jacques-Cartier ¹	François-Zéphirin Tassé	Bleu
Joliette	Joseph-Hilarion Jobin	Rouge
Laprairie	Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger	Bleu
Kamouraska	Jean-Charles Chapais	Reformer
L'Assomption	Louis Archambeault	Bleu
Laval	Pierre Labelle	Bleu
Lévis	François-Xavier Lemieux	Liberal-Conservative
L'Islet	Louis-Bonaventure Caron	Rouge
	Charles-François Fournier (1858)	Reformer
Lotbinière	John O'Farrell	Conservative
	Lewis Thomas Drummond (1858)	Liberal
Maskinongé	Louis-Honoré Gauvreau	Bleu
	George Caron (1858)	Bleu
Mégantic	Noël Hébert	Rouge
Missisquoi	Hannibal Hodges Whitney	Conservative
Montcalm	Joseph Dufresne	Bleu
Montmagny	Joseph-Octave Beaubien	Bleu
Montmorency	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Bleu
Montréal	John Rose	Conservative
Montréal	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Rouge
Montréal	Thomas D'Arcy McGee	Rouge
Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Bleu
Napierville	Jacques-Olivier Bureau	Rouge
Ottawa	Denis-Émery Papineau	Rouge
Pontiac	Edmund Heath	Conservative
Portneuf	Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau	Reformer
Quebec County	Charles Panet	Bleu
Quebec City	Charles Joseph Alleyn	Conservative
Quebec City	Georges-Honoré Simard	Bleu
Quebec City	Hippolyte Dubord	Bleu
Richelieu	Jacques-Félix Sincennes	Bleu
Richmond—Wolfe ²	William Hoste Webb	Conservative
Rimouski	Michel-Guillaume Baby	Bleu
Rouville	Thomas Edmund Campbell	Conservative
Saint-Jean	François Bourassa	Rouge
Saint-Maurice	Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers	Bleu
Shefford	Lewis Thomas Drummond	Liberal
	Asa Belknap Foster (1858)	Conservative
Sherbrooke	Alexander Tilloch Galt	Liberal-Conservative
Soulanges	Dominique-Amable Coutlée	Bleu
Stanstead	Timothy Lee Terrill	Moderate
Témiscouata	Benjamin Dionne	Reformer
Terrebonne	Louis-Siméon Morin	Bleu
Trois-Rivières	William McDonell Dawson	Conservative
Vaudreuil	Robert Unwin Harwood	Conservative
Verchères	George-Étienne Cartier	Bleu
Yamaska	Ignace Gill	Conservative

Notes:

formerly Montreal (county)
formerly Sherbrooke (county) and Wolfe

Louis-Bonaventure Caron was elected but his election was declared invalid and Charles-François Fournier was declared elected in June 1858. Lewis Thomas Drummond was defeated in a by-election in Shefford in September 1858 after he was appointed to cabinet; Asa Belknap Foster was elected to the seat. John O'Farrell was elected but the election was declared invalid; Lewis Thomas Drummond was elected in a by-election in October 1858. John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was declared elected in March 1860 after an inquiry by a committee of the Legislative Assembly. Louis-Honoré Gauvreau died in office in 1858; George Caron was elected in a by-election in December 1858.

Canada West

Riding	Member	Party
East Brant	David Christie	Reformer
	Hugh Finlayson (1858)
West Brant	Herbert Biggar	Reformer
Brockville	George Sherwood	Conservative
Carleton	William F Powell	Conservative
Cornwall	John Sandfield Macdonald	Reformer
Dundas	James William Cook	Reformer
East Durham	F H Burton	Conservative
West Durham	Henry Munro	Reformer
East Elgin	Leonidas Burwell	Reformer
West Elgin	George Macbeth	Conservative
Essex	John McLeod	Conservative
Frontenac	Henry Smith, Jr	Conservative
Glengarry	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Reformer
Grenville	William Patrick	Reformer
Grey	John Sheridan Hogan	Independent Liberal
Haldimand	Michael Harcourt
Halton	John White	Reformer
Hamilton	Isaac Buchanan	Independent
North Hastings	George Benjamin	Conservative
South Hastings	Lewis Wallbridge	Reformer
Huron & Bruce	John Holmes	Reformer
Kent	Archibald McKellar	Reformer
Kingston	John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative
Lambton	Malcolm Cameron	Grit
	Hope Fleming Mackenzie (1861)	Reformer
North Lanark	Robert Bell	Reform
South Lanark	Andrew W. Playfair
North Leeds & Grenville	Basil R. Church (died 1858)	Reformer
	Ogle Robert Gowan (1858)	Conservative
South Leeds	Benjamin Tett	Conservative
Lennox & Addington	David Roblin	Reformer
Lincoln	William Hamilton Merritt	Reformer
London	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative
East Middlesex	Marcus Talbot	Conservative
West Middlesex	A P McDonald
Niagara (town)	John Simpson	Conservative
Norfolk	Walker Powell	Reformer
East Northumberland	John R Clark	Reformer
West Northumberland	Sidney Smith	Reformer
North Ontario	Joseph Gould	Reformer
South Ontario	Oliver Mowat	Reformer
Ottawa	Richard William Scott	Liberal-Conservative
Oxford	George Brown	Reformer
South Oxford	George Skeffington Connor	Reformer
Peel	James Cox Aikins	Clear Grit
Perth	Thomas Mayne Daly	Liberal-Conservative
Peterborough	Thomas Short	Reformer
Prescott	Henry Wellesly McCann	Conservative
Prince Edward	W C Dorland	Conservative
Renfrew	John Lorn McDougall	Reformer
	William Cayley (1858)	Tory
Russell	John W Loux
North Simcoe	Angus Morrison	Reform
South Simcoe	Thomas Roberts Ferguson	Conservative
Stormont	William D. Mattice	Reformer
Toronto	George Brown	Reformer
Toronto	John Beverley Robinson	Conservative
Victoria	John Cameron	Conservative
North Waterloo	Michael Hamilton Foley	Reform
South Waterloo	William Scott	Conservative
Welland	Gilbert McMicken	Reformer
North Wellington	Charles Allan
South Wellington	David Stirton	Reformer
North Wentworth	William Notman	Reformer
South Wentworth	Joseph Rymal	Reformer
East York	Amos Wright	Reformer
North York	Joseph Hartman	Reformer
	Adam Wilson (1860)	Reformer
West York ¹	William Pearce Howland	Reformer

Notes:

formerly South York; prior to that, 1st York

David Christie resigned his seat to take a seat on the Executive Council; Hugh Finlayson was elected in a by-election in 1858. John Lorn McDougall resigned his seat to allow William Cayley to be elected in a by-election held in March 1858. Joseph Hartman died in November 1859; Adam Wilson was elected to his seat in 1860. Malcolm Cameron accepted an appointment to the Legislative Council in 1860; Hope Fleming Mackenzie was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1861. Basil Church died in 1858; Ogle Robert Gowan was elected in a by-election later that year.

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