22nd Quebec Legislature

Template:Short descriptionThe 22nd Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the Quebec, Canada provincial legislature that existed from August 8, 1944, to July 28, 1948. The Union Nationale led by Maurice Duplessis returned to power after defeating the Quebec Liberal Party led by Adélard Godbout who defeated the Union Nationale in the 1939 elections. It was the first of four consecutive terms by the UN until 1960.

Seats per political party

• After the 1944 elections

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Affiliation		Members
48
37
4
1
	Nationaliste	1
Total		91
Government Majority		11

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1944 election:

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	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
Henri Drouin	Libéral	Abitibi-Est	1944
Émile Lesage	Union Nationale	Abitibi-Ouest	1936, 1944
Georges-Étienne Dansereau	Libéral	Argenteuil	1935
Pierre-Horace Plourde	Libéral	Arthabaska	1944
Cyrille Dumaine	Libéral	Bagot	1935, 1939
Daniel Johnson (1946)	Union Nationale		1946
Édouard Lacroix	Bloc populaire canadien	Beauce	1944
Georges-Octave Poulin (1945)	Union Nationale		1945
Albert Lemieux	Bloc populaire canadien	Beauharnois	1944
Valmore Bienvenue	Libéral	Bellechasse	1939
Armand Sylvestre	Libéral	Berthier	1944
Henri Jolicoeur	Union Nationale	Bonaventure	1936, 1944
Jonathan Robinson	Union Nationale	Brome	1936
Dowina-Évariste Joyal	Libéral	Chambly	1939
Maurice Bellemare	Union Nationale	Champlain	1944
Arthur Leclerc	Union Nationale	Charlevoix-Saguenay	1936, 1944
Honoré Mercier III	Libéral	Châteauguay	1944
Antonio Talbot	Union Nationale	Chicoutimi	1938
William James Duffy	Libéral	Compton	1931, 1939
Charles Daniel French (1946)	Union Nationale		1946
Paul Sauvé	Union Nationale	Deux-Montagnes	1930, 1936
Joseph-Damase Bégin	Union Nationale	Dorchester	1935
Robert Bernard	Union Nationale	Drummond	1944
Patrice Tardif	Union Nationale	Frontenac	1935, 1944
Joseph-Alphonse Pelletier	Union Nationale	Gaspé-Nord	1936, 1944
Camille-Eugène Pouliot	Union Nationale	Gaspé-Sud	1936
Joseph-Célestin Nadon	Libéral	Gatineau	1939
Alexandre Taché	Union Nationale	Hull	1936, 1944
Dennis James O'Connor	Libéral	Huntingdon	1941
John Gillies Rennie (1947)	Union Nationale		1947
Yvon Thuot	Union Nationale	Iberville	1944
Hormisdas Langlais	Union Nationale	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1936
Charles-Aimé Kirkland	Libéral	Jacques-Cartier	1939
Antonio Barrette	Union Nationale	Joliette	1936
Louis Philippe Lizotte	Libéral	Kamouraska	1944
Albiny Paquette	Union Nationale	Labelle	1935
Joseph-Ludger Fillion	Libéral	Lac-Saint-Jean	1931, 1939
Victor-Stanislas Chartrand	Union Nationale	L'Assomption	1944
François Leduc	Libéral	Laval	1935
Charles Romulus Ducharme	Union Nationale	Laviolette	1935, 1944
Joseph-Théophile Larochelle	Union Nationale	Lévis	1935, 1944
Adélard Godbout	Libéral	L'Islet	1929, 1939
Guy Roberge	Libéral	Lotbinière	1944
Albert Gatien	Union Nationale	Maisonneuve	1944
Germain Caron	Union Nationale	Maskinongé	1944
Onésime Gagnon	Union Nationale	Matane	1936
Philippe Cossette	Union Nationale	Matapédia	1944
Tancrède Labbé	Union Nationale	Mégantic	1935, 1940
Henri A. Gosselin	Libéral	Missisquoi	1939
Maurice Tellier	Union Nationale	Montcalm	1936, 1944
Fernand Choquette	Libéral	Montmagny	1939
Jacques Dumoulin	Libéral	Montmorency	1939
Joseph-Émile Dubreuil	Libéral	Montréal–Jeanne-Mance	1939
André Laurendeau	Bloc populaire canadien	Montréal-Laurier	1944
	Independent
Joseph-Achille Francoeur	Libéral	Montréal-Mercier	1931, 1939
James Arthur Mathewson	Libéral	Montréal–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	1939
Henri Groulx	Libéral	Montréal-Outremont	1939
Thomas Guerin	Libéral	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1942
Camille Côté	Union Nationale	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1944
Joseph-Hormisdas Delisle	Union Nationale	Montréal–Saint-Henri	1944
Omer Côté	Union Nationale	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1944
Maurice Hartt	Libéral	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1939
Lionel-Alfred Ross	Libéral	Montréal-Verdun	1944
Hercule Riendeau	Union Nationale	Napierville-Laprairie	1944
Émery Fleury	Union Nationale	Nicolet	1936, 1944
Roméo Lorrain	Union Nationale	Papineau	1935
Edward Charles Lawn	Libéral	Pontiac	1935
Bona Dussault	Union Nationale	Portneuf	1935, 1944
Joseph-William Morin	Libéral	Québec-Centre	1939
René Chaloult	NationalisteTemplate:Efn	Québec-Comté	1936
Henri-Paul Drouin	Libéral	Québec-Est	1944
Wilfrid Samson	Libéral	Québec-Ouest	1944
Joseph-Willie Robidoux	Libéral	Richelieu	1942
Albert Goudreau	Union Nationale	Richmond	1935, 1944
Alfred Dubé	Union Nationale	Rimouski	1936, 1944
Léon Casgrain	Libéral	Rivière-du-Loup	1927
Antoine Marcotte	Union Nationale	Roberval	1944
Laurent Barré	Union Nationale	Rouville	1931, 1944
David Côté	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	Rouyn-Noranda	1944
	Independent
Ernest-Joseph Chartier	Union Nationale	Saint-Hyacinthe	1944
Jean-Paul Beaulieu	Union Nationale	Saint-Jean	1941
Marc Trudel	Union Nationale	Saint-Maurice	1935, 1944
Wilfrid Hamel	Libéral	Saint-Sauveur	1939
Hector Choquette	Union Nationale	Shefford	1935, 1944
John Samuel Bourque	Union Nationale	Sherbrooke	1935
Ovila Bergeron	Bloc populaire canadien	Stanstead	1944
Nil-Élie Larivière	Union Nationale	Témiscamingue	1935, 1944
André Pelletier	Union Nationale	Témiscouata	1944
Joseph-Léonard Blanchard	Union Nationale	Terrebonne	1944
Maurice Duplessis	Union Nationale	Trois-Rivières	1927
Alphide Sabourin	Libéral	Vaudreuil-Soulanges	1939
Arthur Dupré	Libéral	Verchères	1944
George Carlyle Marler	Libéral	Westmount–Saint-Georges	1942
Henri Vachon	Union Nationale	Wolfe	1936, 1944
Antonio Élie	Union Nationale	Yamaska	1931

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during this term

• Georges-Octave Poulin, Union Nationale, Beauce, November 21, 1945 [1]
• Charles Daniel French, Union Nationale, Compton, July 3, 1946 [2]
• Daniel Johnson, Union Nationale, Bagot, December 18, 1946 [3]
• John Gillies Rennie, Union Nationale, Huntingdon, July 23, 1947 [4]

Cabinet Ministers

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Maurice Duplessis
• Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
• Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
• Labour: Antonio Barrette
• Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
• Health and Social Welfare: Albiny Paquette (1944-1946)
  • Social Welfare and Youth: Paul Sauvé (1946-1948)
  • Health: Albiny Paquette (1947-1948)
• Lands and Forests: John Samuel Bourque
• Hunting and Coastal Fisheries: Camille-Eugène Pouliot
• Mines: Jonathan Robinson
• Hydraulic resources: John Samuel Bourque (1945-1948)
• Roads: Antonio Talbot
• Municipal Affairs: Bona Dussault
• Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
• Attorney General: Maurice Duplessis
• Provincial Secretary: Omer Côté
• Treasurer: Onésime Gagnon
• Members without portfolios: Thomas Chapais, Antonio Élie, Tancrède Labbé, Marc Trudel, Patrice Tardif, Joseph-Hormisdas Delisle, Joseph-Théophile Larochelle

New electoral districts

The electoral map was slightly modified in 1945 as the Charlevoix et Saguenay riding was split into two new ridings: Charlevoix and Saguenay. The change was effective in the 1948 elections. [5]

External Links

• 1944 election results
• List of historical Cabinet Ministers