38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between June 25, 1925, through September 5, 1928. The first session of this assembly was convened on February 9, 1926. There were three sessions of the assembly during this period.

The election of 1925 represented a shift in Nova Scotia politics as the 37th General Assembly would mark the return of the Conservatives to government after a forty-three year absence.

One of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of this General Assembly is that of An Act Abolishing the Legislative Council and Amending the Constitution of the Province, in 1928. This act abolished the Legislative Council, the General Assembly's upper house. When Edgar Rhodes became premier in 1925, the Legislative Council had only one Conservative member and 17 Liberal members, with three vacancies; Rhodes ultimately had 15 new councillors appointed in order to pack the Council for means of abolition, while dismissing all but a handful of Liberal councillors.

Division of seats

There were 42 members of this General Assembly, elected in the 1925 Nova Scotia general election.

	Leader	Party	# of Seats	Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Liberal-Conservative	38	Ernest Howard Armstrong	Liberal	3	Archibald Terris	Labour-Conservative	1
Total			42

List of members

	Riding	Name	Party	First elected / previously elected	Position	Annapolis County	Obediah Parker Goucher	Conservative	1925		Harry Thompson MacKenzie	Conservative	1925		Antigonish County	William Chisholm	Liberal	1916		John Laughlin McIsaac	Liberal	1925		Cape Breton Centre	Gordon Sidney Harrington	Conservative	1925	Minister of Public Works & Mines	Joseph Macdonald	Conservative	1925		Cape Breton East	John Carey Douglas	Conservative	1911, 1925	Attorney General (1925-6)	Alexander O'Handley	Conservative	1925		Colchester County	William Boardman Armstrong	Conservative	1925		Frank Stanfield	Conservative	1911, 1925		Cumberland County	Percy Chapman Black	Conservative	1925	Minister of Highways	Daniel George McKenzie	Conservative	1920	Speaker (1925-6)	Archibald Terris	Labour	1920		Digby County	William Hudson Farnham	Conservative	1925		John Louis Philip Robicheau	Conservative	1925		Guysborough County	Simon Osborn Giffin	Conservative	1925		Howard Amos Rice	Conservative	1925		Halifax County	Josiah Frederick Fraser	Conservative	1925		Alexander Montgomerie	Conservative	1925		John Francis Mahoney	Conservative	1925		John Archibald Walker	Conservative	1925	Minister of Natural Resources & Provincial Development	William Drysdale Piercey	Conservative	1925		Hants County	Albert E. Parsons	Conservative	1909, 1925	Speaker (1926-8)	Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Conservative	1925	Provincial Secretary & Premier	Inverness County	Hubert Meen Aucoin	Conservative	1925		Malcolm McKay	Conservative	1925		Kings County	George Clyde Nowlan	Conservative	1925		Reginald Tucker Caldwell	Conservative	1925		Lunenburg County	Wallace Norman Rehfuss	Conservative	1925		William Haslam Smith	Conservative	1925		Pictou County	John Doull	Conservative	1925		Robert Albert Douglas	Conservative	1925		Hugh Allan MacQuarrie	Conservative	1925		Queens County	Frank J.D. Barnjum	Conservative	1925		William Lorimer Hall	Conservative	1910, 1925	Attorney General (1926–1928)	Richmond County & Cape Breton West	Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc	Conservative	1916		John Alexander MacDonald	Conservative	1916		John Angus Stewart (1926)	Conservative	1926		Shelburne County	Norman Emmons Smith	Conservative	1925		Ernest Reginald Nickerson	Conservative	1925		Victoria County	Donald Buchanan McLeod	Liberal	1925		Philip McLeod	Conservative	1914, 1925		Yarmouth County	John Flint Cahan	Conservative	1925		Raymond Neri d'Entremont	Conservative	1925

Former members of the 37th General Assembly

	Name	Party	Electoral District	Cause of departure	Succeeded by	Elected	John Alexander MacDonald	Conservatives	Cape Breton West	resigned to run federally	John Angus Stewart, Con.	February 24, 1926	Frank J.D. Barnjum	Conservatives	Queens County	resigned March 16, 1926Template:Efn	N/A	N/A	John Carey Douglas	Conservatives	Cape Breton East	resigned to run federally	N/A	N/A

External links

• "Incidents of the 1927 Session of the Legislature" in "The Province of Nova Scotia". The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs. p 366. Google.

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